Nollywood filmmaker, Kunle Afolayan has revealed that he is still a tenant, plus he’s confessed to owing some banks debts running into millions of Naira.
Kunle said this while soliloquizing and contemplating relocation to the United States of America on his Facebook wall.
He complained about the many problems in Nigeria today, including electricity and the new craze of queuing
endlessly at petrol stations for fuel!
See his blunt Facebook post below:
“YES! It is high time I started considering relocation. To where?
I don’t know but it’s something that has been bothering me for some
time now.
I have always been an advocate of “Yes we are Nigerians and so shall
it be” but for some time now the reality of the state of the Nigerian
Nation is beginning to take its toll on me. Does our government consider
us worthy citizens of Nigeria or we are just fooling ourselves?
There is no electricity to start with and that has been the case
since I was born, now I have worked very hard and I am able to afford
generator of any size but there is no fuel to run any of them, neither
is there fuel to even move around when you need to attend to business.
The life of a Kunle Afolayan is even better than that of majority of
most Nigerians and every day I wonder and I ask what the future holds
for ‘Iya Basira’ who sells wosiwosi and other petty traders whose goods
is sometimes worth less that N10,000.
I am sure a lot of people will consider me a millionaire after I
have made a few successful feature films that have recorded good box
office figures and international recognition, But the truth is, it’s all
make believe just as it is in the movies. If I was living in a better
Nation and well-structured country, I probably will be living the life
of a celebrity by now but the truth and reality is that, I am still a
tenant and so is a lot of our so called celebrities in Nigeria and I am
owing banks millions.
As a matter of fact, everybody in my house owns two passports, one
for Nigeria and the other is for what is considered to be the most
powerful country in the world, I have refused get my citizenship of
America because of my sentiments of being “ PROUDLY NAIJA”. E be like
say I don wake up now!! Make I carry my “ENTERPRENEURIAL ENERGY “and
talent go elsewhere jare…” the confession read in full.”
