Former Nigerian captain and Chelsea player, John Mikel Obi, has caused a huge stir over his take on entitled family members.
During a recent chat with Rio Ferdinand, the former Super Eagles captain complained about how African family members are entitled to his money.
Nigerian footballer John Mikel Obi call out the entitled family members who make demands, on a show with a follow football star Rio Ferdinand, the former Chelsea midfielder complained about entitled relatives in Africa.
John Mikel Obi says, 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 much kids, who’s 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 I’ve done for you guys? But this happens a lot in Africa. Not everybody comes out and speaks about it.