Nigerians own most houses on London's expensive street: Humanitarian group

About 70 per cent of the most expensive buildings in London are owned by Nigerians, the Chairman, New Nation, an empowerment-oriented group, Mr. Charles Dukwe, has said that Nigerians owe 70 per cent of the most expensive buildings in London, the United Kingdom.

According to him, these buildings are in areas where the United Kingdom citizens themselves avoided buying houses because of their expensive prices.

Dukwe spoke to newsmen in Port Harcourt on Saturday.

He 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 event was the 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 is particularly unhappy that some Nigerians siphon funds from the country and invest in Europe and other Western countries, leaving the people at home jobless.

The social philanthropist said that much of the problems Nigerians go through resulted from corruption.

He recommended to Nigerians to redirect their energies to compassion and love to of one another.

'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 said.

He said 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.

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, he said.