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Nollywood Actor Amaechi Muonago Now Paralysed, Seeking Financial Support · DidiLawren

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  Hello, welcome back to another episode of Banter Laurencia.
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  How are you all doing? I hope you're doing great.
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  For today's episode we're going to be talking about Nollywood
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  legendary actor Amichi Monaco. Monaco is currently sick.
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  He has stroke. He is currently paralysed and
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  seeking for financial help to help pay for his medical bills.
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  Now if everybody if you've been watching Hollywood movie, you
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  know Amish Monaco. He is one of The Pioneers of
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  Nollywood movie. He is what he acted with Acampo.
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  He was the father of Aki and Popo and that was I think the
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  movie that actually made Nollywood or made our childhood,
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  if you know I may say that. So I'm actually sick for a very
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  long time he dropped out of circulation.
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  People have been wondering where's the mention Monaco?
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  Why has he not been in circulation in Hollywood movies
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  at events and everything. So one of our social media
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  commentator or a content creator actually went to visit him where
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  he conducted an interview with Michael Monaco and Amici talked
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  about his current health challenges that he's paralysed
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  and let me just play that video for you to see what he has to
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  see and watch this. I'll make you wanna let you.
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  And when you look at the moment here of Nigeria.
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  By the grace of God and others. Documents.
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  Sheets. This seemed like these
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  coordinates. Strong.
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  Photo. I was looking.
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  I wasn't driving. From you.
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  There are also. Officials which was in the.
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  There's some some tunes. Hello.
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  We had nearly. I mean, I am.
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  And that's it. I'm waiting for my call me.
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  This is also. We did that, she thought, in
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  good shape. Umm, I've been on camera.
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  Netflix. Would be good for.
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  Someone. The end of that moment?
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  Was the entire worked out when I was struggling with this.
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  Problem. And since then.
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  Set a mouse. Right now I cannot.
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  How long from my room? Ohh my.
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  How far left? List.
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  So this is a problem for me. I'm so sorry I didn't make it
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  known to the public early. And you know it will last this
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  long. What does it smell?
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  I'm calling from where else? Pretending because.
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  The problem was assistance. To see how they can help me.
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  Provinces. This lever is on his arm
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  forever. And the legs?
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  Like something is really wrong. The profoundly difficult to
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  learn it. Beach.
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  So what is the problem I'm having?
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  And these assistance. Doesn't mean spending money.
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  The name for hospitals Bed. Blue for drugs?
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  Because the government improves here.
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  So unfortunate. So.
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  I need a help. Anybody that is touched?
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  This really were fun. This is the final thought it is.
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  Then confirm certain things comma open it to.
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  Through roles with this particular system.
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  And I've been to all the hospitals.
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  So. Was like I said before.
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  I was thinking is a week something or few days something?
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  Come back? So very prolonged, so I didn't.
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  The people will be looking older people.
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  So This is why I am calling. Hello hello my friends.
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  What's in inside? Very good on the outside.
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  And this is the time to help me. I'm dying of love.
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  Please Now this video is at the back of John Okafor, another
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  legendary actor who is also sick.
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  He has undergone several surgeries and he's currently
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  waiting to get better so that he can be flown to abroad India,
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  wherever they want to fly him to, to help with his case.
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  Now John Okafor has diabetes, his legs, he's about to be cut
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  off both legs. And one of the conversation that
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  comes out of this whole thing is what is the structure in
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  Nollywood? Why are people our legendary
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  actors? What is happening?
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  Then we saw the movies that they've produced or acted in.
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  Why is it that they don't have anything at, you know, their
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  retirement age? They are not feeling OK like a
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  lot of conversation have come out of this whole thing.
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  And some people blame Nollywood structure, just like the way
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  they blamed in the case of John Okafor.
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  Some people said, oh, it is actors who spend lavishly when
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  they were young and now they don't have money to take care of
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  themselves. Some people blame it on Nigerian
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  government, like people just have different opinions about
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  this whole thing. First of all, I want to say that
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  I wish I made someone that go very quick recovery.
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  I wish him to like people should donate, help him out for him to
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  get back to his feet. But I think the bone of
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  contention here is that the previous generation or our
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  fathers who our parents who are currently retiring, they did not
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  plan for retirement. Like I'm going to be banging on
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  this retirement because before you blink you get your
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  retirement age. What are you doing now?
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  We see Nollywood actresses or Nollywood actors who are making
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  money right now and they're buying houses, buying cars,
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  spending money, travelling abroad, doing a whole lot of
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  things, living large, which was what the older generation did.
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  They made money. They you can't tell me they did
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  not make money because they make money.
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  They there was like a week you see in one person in 5-6 movies
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  even if they were paid 10,000, let's just say they made money
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  out of it. But because they are in the
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  limelight, they have to spend to, they have to look the part.
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  You know, these are our stars, these are our legends.
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  So you would not expect to see them in certain places.
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  So they not just have to play that role, they have to embody
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  that role which comes with its own expenses.
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  And I understand that yes, they spent all this money and even if
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  you bought houses just like the new generation are doing right
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  now, nobody talks about inflation, let's say if you have
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  30 million in 22,000 and two when they were hot or 1990
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  something when they were hot. Because I think Aki and Popo
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  where he actually his breakout role, he was about in the early
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  2000s. So let's say at that point they
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  had 30 million and you're thinking, OK, I've planned for
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  retirement, I have money, I can do whatever I like.
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  You're just one sickness away from wiping out that money.
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  You how you say you have houses, you're just one sickness away
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  from that house to for you to sell that house and pay for
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  medical and even go online, just like the way they are doing now
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  to seek for financial help. I understand that people don't
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  take health like you're enjoying your life.
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  You're eating whatever you want to eat.
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  You do whatever you want to do. You're smoking, drinking because
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  most of them, you see that they have kidney problems.
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  A lot of them have died of kidney failure, keep different
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  kidney problems. I am not saying that, you know,
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  I normally healthy person cannot have kidney problems, but
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  sometimes this is as a result of lifestyle.
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  Most of them don't take care of their lives, their their
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  lifestyle. They just leave, you know, the
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  money is coming in, they are spending their money and they
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  are living the way they want to live.
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  You're not understanding. That's OK you're 30 today, in
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  the next 30 years, you're 60 years old.
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  The things you're currently doing today, you will not be
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  able to do it when you're 60. So what is that plan now?
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  Most of them, when they are acting, all these movies, we
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  don't have any transition plan. If you look at Kenneth Okonkwo,
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  Kenneth Okonkwo went back to school, he gained a law degree.
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  Now he's in a Labour Party, he's a spokesperson for Labour Party,
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  he's in politics. He's like his transition from
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  Nollywood to politics. Now, I am not saying that
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  everybody must do that, but there has to be something that
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  you can do because if you cannot transition from one role to the
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  other or from 1 profession to the other, you are planning for
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  retirement because let's say you are a bricklayer.
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  OK, you're a bricklayer. When you're young, you have the
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  strength to do all those things, to carry block, to do mixed
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  cement and everything, even if you're using machines to do
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  those things. But can you do that in your 60s?
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  Can you do that after retirement?
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  You know, people think, OK, once I retire, I will just sit down.
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  I am not going to do anything again.
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  That is when all these little little sickness is coming
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  because you've been active all your life, all your adult life,
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  and you're thinking, OK, I am retiring now because I've gotten
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  to this retirement age. Let me just sit down and do
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  nothing. This is where diabetes will come
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  high, blood pressure will come, stroke will come.
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  Because even when you were younger you were not taking care
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  of yourself, but because you were active those things were
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  not. Your immune system was still OK,
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  but now because you're just sitting down.
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  Like we need to take retirement seriously.
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  Not just in the financial sense of.
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  Because if you're planning for financials and you're saving all
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  your money, you're investing money.
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  You are one sickness away to clear that money.
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  You are one stroke away to wipe off everything you have.
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  You are. You are one kidney failure away
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  for you to go online and start begging for money.
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  So as you're planning for retirement, plan for good
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  health, nobody knows what is going to happen.
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  You can plan and God's plan everything and then you come out
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  and you you you're still sick. But that does not give you an
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  excuse not to even take care of yourself, our parents or the
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  previous generation, because amateur monago, he could easily
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  be my dad. So that's what I'm saying, our
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  parents. So that generation I understand
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  they made money or they did not look into their health enjoyment
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  for them is popping all these things.
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  And this is what this, this margin generation is currently
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  doing who are going to retire in the next 30-40 years and they're
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  still going to face the same challenges.
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  You know you cannot say ohh I'd make you wanna go John Okafor
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  did not save money or they did not invest money.
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  But inflation is real. Inflation is real.
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  You have 30 million today. Even if that 30 million is going
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  to be 100 million in the next 30-40 years, the reality is what
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  that money, the purchasing power for that money will be limited.
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  So if people should plan that even in retirement you were
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  making money even in retirement you're doing one or two things.
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  I see a lot of people, especially civil servants who
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  retire and because they don't know what to do with that money,
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  especially when they pay them gratuity or I don't know what
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  they call it or retirement package, they because they've
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  not thought about what they were going to even do after
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  retirement. They easily give fraudsters that
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  money because somebody will come and tell you, OK, let me invest
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  this money. We're going to get this amount
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  of money or that amount of money.
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  They will take that money and give a Foster and then they are
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  suffering. A lot of people are suffering in
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  their people. Some people are not even up to
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  retirement age and they are suffering because of inflation,
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  cost of living crisis, a whole lot of thing is going on.
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  So we now coming up, we should be able to think ahead, think
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  far ahead. If by chance you can get a dual
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  citizenship in a country where there are medical facility where
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  you can easily access their medical facilities, do it
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  because a lot of people will buy spend over $100,000 buying a car
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  that can easily get your citizenship somewhere you know
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  that you can easily access their medical facilities.
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  Do that for your golden years and take care of your health.
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  Health is wealth. A whole lot of people don't
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  think about their health. They just believe oh I am young,
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  can do whatever I want to do. Some people will not even want
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  to do be like ohh I am young now.
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  I need to enjoy my life. Is it when I'm old I will enjoy
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  my life, enjoy it now. But ohh everything you're doing
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  now is going to come back to you in doing that age during your
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  retirement, they are going to come back to you.
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  So how you want to live, how you plan to live.
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  Your life matters a lot. Delayed gratification, Delay
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  your gratification. You know, it's not about, oh, I
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  want to do this. Think about, sit down and think
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  about what kind of life you want to live in.
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  My 70s. In my 80s.
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  If God allowed me to live up to that level, So what people
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  think, ohh, what if I don't get my 80s?
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  What if I don't get to my 70s? What then happened?
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  I will just suffer and then you know I will not even get to
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  enjoy water. So it's better for me to enjoy
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  it now. Okay, enjoy it now.
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  What if God give you that life to live up to that age?
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  What do you do at that point? Inflation is real.
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  You're buying properties, you're buying bonds, you're buying
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  shares. How many of those, all these
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  people, they did all these things.
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  We have to think strategically in terms of investments,
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  investing, make sure you're earning in dollars, in pounds or
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  you have an investment that's given most of all these
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  celebrities. You can't tell me they're buying
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  brand new cars. Yeah, some of them are faking
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  it, but most of them are making money in dollars.
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  You see them buying Birkin bags, buying these, buy peppering
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  people online. They are not even thinking about
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  your spending night, right? Yes, I get it poor There's going
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  to be a point in your life when Naira will know.
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  Naira will not cut it. There's going to be a point in
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  your life when you're going to need one.
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  Sickness can wipe everything. What do you have in place?
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  You're talking about AG and doesn't have structure or
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  Nigerian government doesn't have structure.
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  What structure are you as an individual putting in place for
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  you to help yourself when you get to that age?
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  We all know Nigeria don't have structure.
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  We all know age and don't have structure.
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  What are you doing? What are you doing?
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  Don't ask. This is saying that.
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  Say don't ask for what you know the country can do for you.
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  Or what? AG asks.
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  What can you do? Do something for yourself so
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  that your future self can be proud of you.
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  This is not to say that you know they've done anything wrong.
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  This is to say that we should learn from these things.
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  We should not leave. Sickness can happen to anybody.
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  You can be, You can you. You can do everything right.
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  You can be walking on the streets.
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  Just there was this story. This guy parked his.
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  You were gone about to cross the road and that was it.
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  So things can happen. But you should not take because
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  such things happen. Don't plan for What if it
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  doesn't happen? When I get there?
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  What will happen? From which I mention one?
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  I got quick recovery and good health.
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  Long life. Because he's a legend.
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  He deserves it. Anyway.
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