Nigerian singer Zlatan Ibile has condemned the culture of online begging in Nigeria, stating that celebrities should stop encouraging it.
In a recent interview, the singer decried the rate at which some social media users request giveaways from celebrities while also trolling them.
Zlatan stated that some individuals spend their entire day searching for giveaways from celebrities, wondering if they genuinely need help or are simply taking advantage of celebrities’ generosity.
He said, “I don’t mean to be petty but I know how people move on the internet. It’s like these people are just there from morning till night and they are under your activities wanting giveaways. I don’t know the reason but they always want. Just this afternoon I was just thinking to myself if these people are just online jumping from one celebrity to the other. I can’t talk too much sha before they remind me that I was once there.
“One particular day I was wondering how to help but I didn’t want to give random people money. So I went through people tweeting about their jobs and if I see that you say you’re a tailor but there’s nothing on your page about it, you must have posted about your services.
“There was this lady so I checked her page and searched my name only to see that she had said something about me in 2020. People were telling me to forgive her, and it’s easy for people to say but me I have the money to someone else.”
