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Twitter users school Sugabelly for saying people who don’t have N50k should not be making babies
Controversial Twitter user @Sugabelly has court controversial again on the microblogging site over her tweet on finance and parenting.
Remember Sugabelly was in the eye of the storm a few weeks ago after she tweeted that veteran Nollywood actor, Pete Edochie, is a bad actor.
A few days ago she sent Nigeria Twitter community into another frenzy when she ridiculed the new corporate headquarters and creative studios of Mavin Records, saying the “buildings are so hideously ugly“.
She took to Twitter again on Wednesday to say couples who can’t boast of N50,000 don’t have any business making babies.
Her comment was prompted by her recent experience with a parent who approached her for help to clear hospital bills of a baby.
She wrote:
“Someone messaged me asking for help for a medical issue for their newborn. When I started reading the message I assumed it would be one of these multi-million Naira surgeries. Apparently the bill is 50k. People who don’t have 50,000 naira, should they be having children???
We keep complaining about how poverty is increasing yet here are people deliberately manufacturing poverty. How can you have a child knowing full well you don’t even have a spare 50 thousand in the bank to cover a medical emergency? Children are not cheap! Why do such a thing?
In another tweet she wrote:
“If they decided not to procreate, majority of them would be lifted out of poverty in a single generation.
“But they won’t.”
Well, as expected several social media users have camped in the comment section of the tweet to disagree with her comment. Some also took time to school her on parenting.
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Tech entrepreneur, Victor Asemota wrote:
“This is not right. Circumstances change daily. I have had $150k once in a year then had to borrow in August of that year to survive. No condition is permanent.”
Sugabelly responded:
Was the $150k you had your personal money for your private expenses, or was it capital for business expenses? You can’t use money meant for capital expenditure as an excuse for poor personal financial planning We’re both too educated and too experienced in business for that.
Asemota tweeted:
“I am telling you I had cash. Raw cash. Lost it all unexpectedly in the weirdest way. Circumstances change and you shouldn’t always expect it all to be rosy for people.”
Another Twitter user wrote:
Yes. People without 50,000 Naira should be having children. In Nigeria and nations without adequate healthcare insurance and quality/affordable healthcare, majority of citizens are one serious health crisis away from financial instability/poverty. Context matters a lot here.
Sometimes, unconsciously, privilege and elitism create a disconnect and we tend to view poverty or the poor, without the contextual frameworks of empathy/social injustice/corruption/poor governance, and invariably penalize/strip those we perceive as poor of their dignity
If we measure our minimum wage vs cost of living, lack of social buffers, public & private sector penchant for not paying living/consistent wages, reality is a difficulty in saving up emergency funds…so it becomes plausible to see how the scenario you shared is possible.
Some Twitter users who aligned with Sugabelly’s stance also tweeted:
Akinola Tosin wrote:
No! I say this every time but they say I’m the devil. If you don’t think about anything else, think about the helpless being you are about to bring into your mess gosh! People are so selfish. https://t.co/wg39iZHC88
— OG Beeper (@akinolatosin7) November 28, 2019
@i_njure tweeted:
If only Nigerian’s will get this.
The poverty rate in Nigeria will so crash but no, let us give birth it doesn’t matter if we have a savings or not. It doesn’t matter if we can train or provide for them just keep pushing them out.
Na God dey train pikin. https://t.co/E94rMorjXF— Baby girl ? (@i_njure) November 28, 2019
See other reactions:
This is a wrong way to look at it but you are not entirely wrong. Marriage has been glorified as a do or die, some people will even tell a jobless husband and wife to go and marry, that marriage brings blessings. Lol no logical explanations just sentiments. https://t.co/XJ4bZQm5HT
— Olufemi Osasona (@OsasDapheel) November 28, 2019
If someone reached out to you for help with thier sick newborn you really should resist the temptation to share it on social media to buttress anything
It’s really hurtful and unnecessary.
You haven’t mentioned names but if they used DMs they can see your tweet— Wake Up! (@pdbraide) 28 November 2019
Na real wah oh. This your tweet is so elitist. So by your logic the over 50% of the Nigerian population that allegedly live below the poverty line of less than $2 dollars per day should never consider procreating.
— Onyemaechi Bosah?? (@onyemaechib) 28 November 2019
Honestly I think this is too removed from reality to be taken seriously. This is not somerhing you can plan. Yes they could have better financial planning but on average how many average Nigerian families have an extra 50k just sitting around?
— Koyona The Exceptional (@koyonaduke) 27 November 2019
I think this is quite judgemental simply because you really dont know their stories.
You have to know their story to be able to conclude on this .
There are people whose stories change Overnight. From grace to grass , just like that.
You just never know until you know .— Chisom (@MAGGEZEH_) 28 November 2019
May you not be tried so. I was once stranded in ibadan, my own town, with plenty of families scattered throughout the town, that I had to walk 5 kilometers to the garage,so I can pay the bus fare to ilorin. Circumstances can be fluid!! The abundance today my suddenly change.
— olusina olayiwola (@elorapha) 28 November 2019
Water dropped from my ? reading whatever was written up there. The year started on a very very good note… Fast forward July, invested in a business that almost ended my life and can’t even boost of 10k savings because I have debts to pain. How people conclude so fast amazes
— Doyenbossladythegreat®? (@DSowole) 28 November 2019
I don’t know how much my parents had in their account when they gave birth to me so I won’t have this argument, I get your point, but shit happens. That “small” 50k to you, is 500k to someone else. I just hope you at least helped out after passing all this your judgment.?♀️
— C.A.N! (@Allyncaramel) 28 November 2019
See at some point in Nigeria , you would be okay can afford basic things at some point you won’t have 5 naira even for pure water. If he/she needed help of 50k . That doesn’t mean they don’t have at all . At that time 50k might be so hard to get for them
— iconOFdynamism (@IamY_fella) 27 November 2019
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