ABOUT 70% of the most expensive houses in the most expensive street in the world located in London are owned by Nigerians according to recent revelations by the chairman of empowerment-oriented group New Nation Charles Dukwe. At a recent event in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, Mr Dukwe, an enthusiastic philanthropist, said that UK citizens avoided buying houses many of the areas where Nigerians bought houses due to their expensive prices. He made the revelations at the unveiling of the Queen of Compassion and Kill the Killers initiatives, a grass roots campaign against diabetes and high blood pressure.
Present at the event as brand ambassadors were Nollywood stars such as Ini Edo, Uche Jombo, Monalisa Chinda and Desmond Elliot. Critical of the antics of many wealthy Nigerians, Mr Dukwe lamented that some of them were investing funds from the country in Europe and other Western nations, leaving people at home jobless.
He observed that Nigeria was going through a lot of challenges as a result of corruption that had brought rot to the system. Dr Dukwe, therefore, called on Nigerians to embrace compassion and show love to each other.
Dr Dukwe added: “There is a street in London called Edgerton Crescent. Now, Edgerton Crescent is the most expensive street in the world and houses there are worth £3m to £4m. “British celebrities that have money don’t buy houses on that street. They will tell you it is too expensive but 70% of the houses there are owned by Nigerians." According to Dr Dukwe, the Kill the Killers initiative was established to attack the major diseases that cut short the lives of people in Nigeria and across Africa. He added that diabetes and high blood pressure form over 60% of the cause of deaths among adults in Nigeria, just as malaria forms 70% of the deaths among children in the country. Dr Dukwe said: “The thing that is missing in Nigeria is compassion. We want to use compassion as a value and drive it through people so that people can help each other in the society and our aim is to make compassion a core value in the society.
In Nigeria and across Africa, we have failed immeasurably by paying little or no attention to principal diseases that cut the lives of our people short and thus leaving our life expectancy to numbers way below all the advanced nations.”
Present at the event as brand ambassadors were Nollywood stars such as Ini Edo, Uche Jombo, Monalisa Chinda and Desmond Elliot. Critical of the antics of many wealthy Nigerians, Mr Dukwe lamented that some of them were investing funds from the country in Europe and other Western nations, leaving people at home jobless.
He observed that Nigeria was going through a lot of challenges as a result of corruption that had brought rot to the system. Dr Dukwe, therefore, called on Nigerians to embrace compassion and show love to each other.
Dr Dukwe added: “There is a street in London called Edgerton Crescent. Now, Edgerton Crescent is the most expensive street in the world and houses there are worth £3m to £4m. “British celebrities that have money don’t buy houses on that street. They will tell you it is too expensive but 70% of the houses there are owned by Nigerians." According to Dr Dukwe, the Kill the Killers initiative was established to attack the major diseases that cut short the lives of people in Nigeria and across Africa. He added that diabetes and high blood pressure form over 60% of the cause of deaths among adults in Nigeria, just as malaria forms 70% of the deaths among children in the country. Dr Dukwe said: “The thing that is missing in Nigeria is compassion. We want to use compassion as a value and drive it through people so that people can help each other in the society and our aim is to make compassion a core value in the society.
In Nigeria and across Africa, we have failed immeasurably by paying little or no attention to principal diseases that cut the lives of our people short and thus leaving our life expectancy to numbers way below all the advanced nations.”
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