About 70 Percent Of Buildings In London Are Owned By Nigerians

About 70 per cent of buildings on Edgerton Crescent, in
London are owned by Nigerians, the Chairman, New
Nation, an empowerment-oriented group, Mr. Charles
Dukwe, has said.
He added that citizens of the United Kingdom avoided
buying houses in the area due to their expensive prices.
The philanthropist spoke with newsmen in Port Harcourt
on Saturday shortly after unveiling the Queen of
Compassion and Kill the Killers Initiative, a grass roots
campaign against diabetes and high blood pressure.
Present at the event as brand ambassadors were
Nollywood stars such as Ini Edo, Uche Jombo, Monalisa
Chinda and Desmond Elliot.
Dukwe lamented that some Nigerians were investing
funds from the country in Europe and other Western
countries, leaving the people at home jobless.
He observed that Nigeria was going through a lot of
challenges as a result of corruption that had brought rot
to the system. He, therefore, called on Nigerians to
embrace compassion and show love to each other.
Dukwe said, “There is a street in London; it is called
Edgerton Crescent. Edgerton Crescent is the most
expensive street in the world. Houses there are worth
£3m to £4m.
“British celebrities that have money don’t buy houses
on that street. They will tell you it is too expensive. But
70 per cent of the houses there are owned by Nigerians.
“The thing that is missing in Nigeria is compassion. We
want to use compassion as a value and drive it through
people so that people can help each other in the
society. Our aim is to make compassion a core value in
the society.”
He noted that the ‘Kill the Killers Initiative’ was
established to attack the major diseases that cut short
the lives of people in Nigeria and across Africa.
According to him, diabetes and high blood pressure
form over 60 per cent of the cause of deaths among
adults in Nigeria, just as malaria forms 70 per cent of
the deaths among children in the country.
“In Nigeria and across Africa, we have failed
immeasurably by paying little or no attention to
principal diseases that cut the lives of our people short
and thus leaving our life expectancy to numbers way
below all the advanced nations,” he said.