How many Nigerians are suffering abroad but live fake lives in Nigeria - Reno Omokri

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Critic, Reno Omokri on Thursday said many Nigerians living in Canada, US, UK, among others finding it tough to make ends meet only for them to live fake lives on getting back to Nigeria.

Omokri, on his Instagram page said many of those “you think are enjoying in Canada, America, and the UK, hold down three jobs just to sustain the illusion of wealth they flash at you. If they miss three mortgage payments, their banks WILL (not may) foreclose on their homes.”

He said they worked themselves to the bone to make monthly payments for their houses, cars, furniture, and health insurance.

Omokri added that when they closed from work, they spent hours in rush hour traffic, or waiting at sometimes overcrowded train stations and that they got home exhausted.

“They can hardly relax. No time to just do nothing. A lot of them have very little family or social interaction. The rat race takes the place of family.

“God forbid that you are a single Nigerian female. You can stay ten years in London (not so much America and Canada) without any man asking you out.

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“The men are more fortunate. Oyinbo, Caribbeans and African-Americans women heavily dig certain types of Nigerian men (an ethnic group that likes to party and enjoy. But I don’t want fight. So I won’t mention their name).

“Expatriate Nigerians have to pay through their noses for childcare, because it is not like Nigeria, where your relatives and friends can watch your kids.

“And one half day in a month, they take photos in cars that they will only pay off in 5 years, and designers that they pay for monthly on their credit cards, to feed you the illusion that they are in heaven and you are in hell. Then they return to their life as worker ants,” he said.

Omokri said sadly, too large a percentage of Nigerians had been blessed by Satan to always and only say negative things about Nigeria.

“Get the book the Lonely Londoners and read it. It is old. But it still accurately captures life in the Western world. We may not have a perfect life in Nigeria. But we have a good one,” he said.

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