pic; @IruefiNG on X and stock pictureHe revealed that some people in the UK rely on financial support from their families in Nigeria and also expressed deep frustration with the Nigerian police, which he says has significantly shaped his perspective.
A Nigerian man living abroad, known as @IruefiNG on X (formerly Twitter), described relocating to the UK with his family as the worst decision he has ever made.
@IruefiNG expressed his regret in response to another X user’s comment lamenting that Nigerians in the UK are often associated with negative news as below:
“My bro, what you see online is very little compared to what goes on in real life. Nigerians in the UK are so ghetto. If not for law & order in this country, the areas where there are Nigerian communities will be no different from Ajegunle.
I spent over £50k to bring my family over here and it’s the worst decision I ever made – inasmuch as there were reasons why I had to come.
I would never in a million years ask anyone who has a substantive income in Nigeria to come over here if they are not a very highly skilled professional – Doctor, accountant, geologist, physicist, software engineer or developer etc. Take that money and go to the US, Australia or New Zealand if you must migrate.
It is so bad that there are people in the UK that are sustained by their families based in Nigeria. That is why I would forever hate the Nigerian police because they took my life away causing me to flee to this place, waking up by 4am so I can catch the train and bus to work 12 hour shifts that’s barely enough to sustain one’s life. You stay one month without a job and the bills come piling up – you basically live paycheck to paycheck, yet some Nigerians here have the guts to defraud other Nigerians of thousands of pounds that was earned through blood and sweat. Mine was £8k last year and £21k in total. There are hundreds of cases like this and 10 out of 10 times, the culprits are fucking Nigerians.
My theory is that there are scarce resources in the UK currently and because Nigerians are classist and want to impress other Nigerians here and back home, they indulge in fraud to meet up with the lifestyle they have created which their minimum wage jobs can’t sustain.
A lot of Nigerians who have lived in the UK are silently returning to Nigeria because of the Nigerians in the UK that have corrupted the system.
It’s so terrible.
Let me just use this opportunity to tell Mr Kolawole Iyanda that until the day he draws his last breathe, I’ll be on his trail, even if he pays me my money because the pain he put my family thru can never be undone and if he dies before I get him best believe his children will inherit what’s coming for him.”
