Fast-rising content creator, Folorunso Fatai Adisa has come out with a very incisive verdict about the realities and deceptions of living abroad.
Adisa’s critical yet congent verdict comes in reaction to an emotional outburst about false wealth among
Africans living abroad that was recently raised by Zimbabwe’s Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) star, Themba Gorimbo.
Sports247.ng reports that Gorimbo raised lots of dust when he alleged that his cousins back home celebrated his loss in The Octagon because he did not send money to them as often as they wanted him to.
Gorimbo added that many people in Africa tend to think that people living in the USA or Great Britain are rolling in cash but stressed that it is one wrong assumption that has to be corrected fast.
“People think because I’m in the US that I’m a millionaire,” Gorimbo stated in part, “Someone will message me saying, ‘send me $5,000.’ Where would I get that type of money?”
A down-to-earth reaction to Gorimbo’s revelation has now come from Adisa, who graduated with a first degree in English Studies from the University of Ilorin, after which he got masters in Communication Arts at University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland.
Sports247.ng reports that the core of Adisa’s reaction is a poignant message that not everyone living abroad is wealthy, and those who are financially stable must have worked their socks off in order to achieve that status.
“It’s time people realised that money does not grow on trees in America and pounds aren’t picked up on the streets in London. People work their asses off to get paid. That they are abroad doesn’t mean they have sufficient money to cater for families, friends and passers-by,” Adisa pointed out.
The content provider, who started his days in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) at Ogun State ministry of sports, before being transferred to ministry of information, further recounted how he learnt the realities of a flexible life in Nigeria and strict living conditions that have to be endured in the United Kingdom.
