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Twitter users school Sugabelly for saying people who don’t have N50k should not be making babies

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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:

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