Former Super Eagles midfielder, Mikel John Obi, has observed that entitled families are more prevalent in Africa.
During an interview with fellow footballer, Rio Ferdinand, the former Super Eagles captain lamented how families are often entitled to a person’s money in Africa.
The football player mentioned that these people have so many children and expect him to care for them and that he sometimes has to be strong and put his own needs aside.
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Mikel Obi stated that the extended family members believe he owes them money and threaten to go to the press if he refuses.
This, according to the footballer, is prevalent in Africa.
He said: “When you come from Africa when you make money, it’s not your money. You have all these relatives, cousins, and your sisters go off and get married to some guy who just wants to get married into Mikel John Obi’s family because his life is sorted, and then you start looking after this guy, and before you know it, they keep having so many kids and you look at it like,
“Okay, you’re having this many kids, who are going to look after them?’ It’s you! It’s the culture because, 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, we’re going to go to the press’. After all, what have I done for you guys? But this happens a lot in Africa. Not everybody comes out and speaks about it.”
