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VIDEO: Obi Cubana pledges support for Lagos hawker
Popular businessman and socialite, Obi Cubana has pledged to offer a Lagos hawker who sells bottled water university scholarship and employment in any of his companies.
Obi Cubana said this after he sighted a video, during the week, of the hawker identified as Ekuma Jeremiah giving money to inmates in Nigerian Correctional Service bus in Ajah, Lagos State.
While his kind gesture earned him a widespread commendation from many Nigerians, he also received donations of over N300,000 on Saturday.
According to an interview derived from The Nation, Jeremiah said he was motivated by pity to give the inmates money.
He said; “I was not inspired by anyone. I gave the inmates money out of pity. I didn’t do that because I’ve been to a police station… since I was born, I have not been detained in a police station.
“Though I am very poor and sell bottled water, I still have my freedom, I can eat whatever I want to eat and go anywhere I want to go, but the prisoners do not have that freedom.
“They are being denied of many things. They cannot make a choice of what to eat, they take whatever given to them. Sometimes when they crave to sleep, they would be denied but I can sleep whenever I’m tired.
“So, immediately I saw them, I was touched. I gave the first person N100 then others started begging me for help, so I decided to also give them. Basically, it was due to pity.” He concluded.
Meanwhile, Obi in an Instagram live session with Daddy Freeze promised to help the young man attain his dream in life. He said; “I am offering him a lifetime opportunity, he has to go to school I think that is his ambition.
“I will see him through the university and if he wants to do Masters abroad , I will make sure he is comfortable while going to school because like I said earlier, that is the best we can do for him.”
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