Charles Dukwe, Chairman of New Nation, a Civil Society Organization set up to empower Nigerians has alleged that Nigeria’s political elite and those connected to the ruling class are buying up homes in London’s most expensive zone for Real Estate.
Speaking to journalists in Port Harcourt on Saturday, Dukwe said, “There is a street in London; it is called Edgerton Crescent. Edgerton Crescent is the most expensive street in the world. Houses there are worth £3m to £4m.
“British celebrities that have money don’t buy houses on that street. They will tell you it is too expensive. But 70 per cent of the houses there are owned by Nigerians.
“The thing that is missing in Nigeria is compassion. We want to use compassion as a value and drive it through people so that people can help each other in the society. Our aim is to make compassion a core value in the society.”
His organization supported by Nollywood stars Desmon Elliot, Ini Edo, Uche Jumbo and Monalisa Chinda launched Queen of Compassion and Kill the Killers Initiative, a grass roots campaign against diabetes and high blood pressure.
He noted that diabetes and high blood pressure formed 60% of the diseases that kill adult Nigerians.
“In Nigeria and across Africa, we have failed immeasurably by paying little or no attention to principal diseases that cut the lives of our people short and thus leaving our life expectancy to numbers way below all the advanced nations,” he said.
He stated that ‘Kill the killers; campaign was set up to reverse the trend.
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