Award-winning singer Peter Okoye, popularly known as Mr P, has disclosed his biggest fear is poverty and being broke.
In a recent interview on Nancy Isime show, Mr. P stated he was not afraid of death, but the thought of returning to a life of poverty terrified him.
Recounting his childhood, Mr. P said that his family’s single-room apartment was demolished after the landlord sold the property.
He described living with his parents and siblings in a boys’ quarter, with six boys and two girls sharing a one-bedroom apartment divided by a curtain.
Mr P emphasised that he had experienced poverty firsthand and had no desire to return to it.
He said, “I am not afraid of death. The only thing I am afraid of in this life is poverty, of being broke.
“I have tasted it [poverty] before. I have been in our house with my parents and siblings, and a bulldozer came and demolished it.
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“We were living in a boys’ quarter, me, my mum, my dad, all of us. The whole family, six boys and two girls living in a one-bedroom apartment. They had to divide the room with a curtain. So, the landlord had sold the compound, we were trying to plead to get some time to plan our relocation, and then a bulldozer came and started demolishing the house while we were still in the building.”
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