Famous comedian Bovi has disclosed that he moved his children overseas because of concerns regarding the Nigerian educational system’s acceptance of bullying.
The comedian shared in a recent episode of the Uncolored podcast, posted on X on Wednesday, that his children have been residing in the United Kingdom for the past two years.
“My kids don’t live in the country [Nigeria] anymore. They have been in the UK for two years now. It started by accident, my first son has been there since 2021 in boarding house.
“I went to boarding school in Nigeria and it made me street-smart. So I decided that my kid needs to go to boarding but my kids will not go to school where a fellow students is at most four years older than my kid and ask him to kneel down or fetches water or make his bed or beat him up and I don’t want to beat nobody’s kid or fight any parents, for me I don’t like bullying and that’s one thing the system has accepted because when I was young in boarding I couldn’t phantom a fellow kid, the oldest student in secondary school is supposed to be 16years, I couldn’t phantom a kid telling me to kneel down,” he said.
Discussing the factors driving the mass migration of Nigerians abroad, Bovi stated, “The saving grace of the country is that we’ve not gone into war or food shortage. We’ve also not had natural disasters.
“So we can lose 500 doctors in one year but there are about 200 new doctors coming on board. It’s like using balm aid on a big wound. That’s why it has not blown up in our faces.
“If the government wants to stem the tide, they check what the West is doing. Why are doctors comfortable going to work in other countries? It’s not just the money. If you are passionate about something but when you get to work there’s light and an enabling encouragement, you don’t get to fight to go to work or go back home.
“It may not be perfect but at least that decency is not lost. Patients have died in Nigeria because of lack of blood or power failure during operation. If you are a medical doctor, would you like to work under that kind of condition? The answer is no.”
