Mikel Obi has spoken about the entitlement mentality displayed by family members in Africa once a member of the family makes money.
During a chat with former footballer Rio Ferdinand, Obi revealed that family members become so greedy that they sometimes threaten to go to the press to tarnish your image if you don't continue to offer financial assistance.
Using his own experience as an example, he said, "You get threatened by your own blood. Your own brothers and sisters."
He continued: "When you come from Africa, when you make money, it's not your money. You have all these relatives, cousins, whatever you call it.
"And your sisters, they go off and they get married to some guy who just wants to get married into John Obi Mikel's family because then 'my life is sorted'. And then you start looking after this guy. Before you know it... they keep having so many kids and so many kids. And you look at it, OK, 'You're having this much kids, who's going to look after them?' It's you. For them you owe them that.
"So sometimes you have to be strong and say, you know what guys, 'enough is enough. I don't care'.
"They give you this thing whereby, 'if you don't do it, were going to go to the press'."
His listeners were shocked and asked, "What? Did you have that conversation?"
Mikel replied, "Yeah, yeah."
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Well done, Mikel. One of the biggest problem in African societies is the entitlement mentality. It stinks and it is high time we pay attention to it.
You would take care of your Russian in-laws, give them expensive vacations worth thousands of dollars but the few hundred dollars you give to your African relatives is what is driving this angst and you giving them labels. Whilst some people are unreasonablee in their demands the majority of Africans just need a few support to survive. African leaders or dealers as they are supposed to be called have decimated their economies through corruption and the majority of able-bodied men are jobless. You think they want to just get drowned in the sea trying to get to Europe just to afford the very basic needs of life? They are being pursued by raw hunger because unlike European countries there is no social support for unemployed people in African countries. You are on your own but as soon as you start work they are on your neck to collect taxes. This is the reality of most African youth. And tsupidly enough they continue to follow and vote for the same corrupt and clueless leaders/dealers who have impoverished them !