How I Was Mocked Over My N22m Indebtedness- Warri Pikin

Nigerian comedienne, dancer and media personality, Anita Asuoha well known as Real Warri Pikin, has recounted how friends mocked her over a N22m debt.

The debt, according to the comedienne made her to attempt suicide in June 2018.

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She took to her verified Instagram page where she made revelation of her ordeal at the time, her family was in debt to the tune of N22m.

Asuoha said, “On the 6th of June, 2018, the only words I was hearing in my head were ‘end it now! give up already! No hope! You and Ikechukwu will never pay up the N22m debt! The suffering will never end! End it! End it!’

“You will beg all the days of your life! Help will never come! Rent, school fees, bills are due you can’t pay! You and Ikechukwu salary put together in 5 years can’t pay back the debt End it! The banks, Friends etc. you owe won’t stop calling and embarrassing you, end it.”

The Comedienne recalled that at a point, she resorted to suicide as the thoughts kept coming to her head.

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“And because I was exhausted, I believed the voices in my head. I made an attempt to take my own life. (Dear God, thank you for giving me a second chance).

“Little did I know that my breakthrough was near and God was just preparing me for where he was taking me,” she stated.

Asuoha, however, advised her friends and fans to always say no to suicide, adding that she urged them not to give up on their dreams.

She recalled the disappointment she got after people who she thought would have helped her refused to do so.

In a blend of English and pidgin, she said, “These na some of the words wey friends when I ask for help that year. It’s funny now but then these replies broke me into pieces. I was not a stranger to them, I was a good friend who has come through for them in so many ways.”

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Her revelation stirred up a lot of conversations from Nigerians who questioned how she accumulated such debt.

@sarahordiah said, “N22 million debt? Jeeeez! She has gone through a lot!”

@abikemi._ who questioned what the money was for said, “How you sef take owe N22million, ordinary 10k ajo wey I never pay my heart go dey do gbim gbim”

@its_katchy said, “But how she take owe N22m? “Dem do her wash wash doubling or what?”

@__classyfoxwardrobe said, “How u take accumulate N22m debt abeg? Nawaooo.”

iamsheila_ “Debt is really a bad thing o, debt and peace of mind nor fit dey the same lane at all…Thank God for her life.”

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