Nigerian singer Charles Chibuezechukwu, better known by his stage name Crayon, has recalled how a landlord once kicked his family out of his house because his parents couldn’t afford to pay the rent.
in a recent interview with MTV Base, he claimed the incident took place in 2013 and their house rent at the time was N18,000.
Crayon stated that after being evicted from their home, they proceeded to stay at a church member’s home but discovered that they were both in arrears on their rent and the landlord evicted them as well.
He narrated how broken he was seeing his parents down in front of their landlord.
In his words:
“What happened is, our church member was living in a house before so she wanted to move out of the house. And we were looking for a house because they gave us a deadline to move from our former house.
“So, our church member told us that okay, you guys can move into the house. We did not know all along that she was owing rent. And we had a deadline. My dad already signed a tenancy with the landlord because the landlady was going crazy.
“So, five days before [the expiration of the deadline], we moved and then we got to the [our church member’s] house. It was still a ‘face-me-I-face-you’. And then I think one of the tenants called the landlord like, ‘Yo, somebody just moved into your house.’ And then the landlord came and threw our things out. We started begging. I was f*cking depressed looking at my mom and dad being down in front of a normal man.
“Guess how much was the rent? N18k. This was 2013/2014.
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