Lady in UK Laments as She Shares WhatsApp Messages She Gets from Her Nigerian Contacts, Many React
- A lady in the United Kingdom shared her experience when she opened her WhatsApp with her Nigerian number
- She shared the kind of messages she got from her Nigerian contacts since she got to the United Kingdom
- Her video sparked debate between Nigerians and their counterparts abroad, as they shared diverse opinions
A Nigerian lady in the United Kingdom shared the kind of messages she received from her Nigerian contacts.
She stated that whenever she opened her WhatsApp which had her Nigerian number, she received demanding messages.
Source: TikTok
In a video by @xtianas.world on X, the lady shared some of the messages she received.
According to her, some of the messages included “Send me money”, “My rent is due”, “today is my birthday”, “sponsor me abroad”, “I have not eaten today,” etc.
She captioned the video:
“Anytime I open my Naija WhatsApp. Am I the only one experiencing billings left and right ??? Black Tax is real!”
Source: TikTok
In the comment section, she added:
“It’s good to help. I do too, a lot. Just that it can be overbearing when it’s now turning to entitlement.”
Watch the video below:
In a chat with Legit.ng, a Canadian-based Nigerian, Harriet George, spoke on the demands from those in Nigeria after travelling abroad and some of the misconceptions they have,
She said:
"There are demands, and sometimes, these demands come with entitlement mentality. That's the bad thing about it, because when you say no, they are like, "How can you say you don't have money when you are living this kind of life? 'You are posting pictures, you are wearing fine clothes, so how can you say you don't have money?'
"However, what they fail to know here is that the system abroad works on a credit system. Secondly, abroad, there's no real helper. In Nigeria, you can tell one uncle that you want to stay with him. But here, you can't come and stay with somebody. You have to share bills.
"In Nigeria, you pay rent yearly, right? Abroad, you pay rent monthly. That money you pay for a duplex in Nigeria for a year, you're going to pay it in a month for just a one-bedroom apartment abroad."
Reactions trail lady’s video
Many who came across the video shared diverse opinions on her experience. Sparking mixed reactions.
Legit.ng compiled some of the reactions.
@Charis cake and more said:
"Thank God I don't even chat my friends who have traveled out oooo! all their thoughts thinks you want to beg them."
@yetundehelenajayi said:
"Hello just a year in abroad i have help plenty pple even pple that are not family unless i don't have. I pray God continue to bless me to continue to help."
@DuchessBimpe said:
"That’s why i don’t chat my friends that are abroad cos most people abroad thinks you want to beg if you chat them."
ediealbert1 said:
"That is how someone asked me for 4million naira few months after I arrived the UK and I was not working at the time he got angry. After some time he came back this time around I was working but paying Debt. Money we borrowed to use and relocate. I told him I don’t have money he got angry again."
@user7120478668000 said:
"I don't know why they hype u guys abroad, we wey dey nigeria dey give pass them abroad."
Amaka Harmony said:
"To think that somebody stopped talking to me because I refused to sponsor her abroad.. if it’s easy all my siblings should be in abroad naa."
Ray Charles said:
"It’s becoming scary. You can’t even normal conversations."
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Source: Legit.ng
