Bet, millions of Nigerians don’t really know much about veteran Nollywood actor, Kanayo O. Kanayo apart from the fact that he is an actor, filmmaker and a lawyer.
Interestingly, many would expect that the movie star was born with a gold or silver spoon.
Be that as it may, Kanayo, in an interview with Vanguardngr, shocked many people when he revealed that he was once a hawker.
He said; “I used to hawk Agidi on the streets of Enugu and in one of those dark days, while I was crossing Abakpa Bridge to hawk Agidi, I looked into the deep water when a voice urged me to jump into the water and end my suffering.”
“I was a small boy carrying this heavy thing on my head. But I did not listen to that voice and luckily for me, I finished selling all the agidi.”
“I have not done anything bad. I had to do menial jobs to make ends meet.”
“My brother’s wife, whom I lived within those days in Enugu, did not want to know your age; she would give me dozens of agidi on my head, and God save me if I returned home with some unsold items with the kind of beating I would receive that day.”
“If you are familiar with Enugu State, I used to hawk agidi from New Haven to Abakpa, a long distance.”
“I have gone through the thick and thin of life. I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth. But I want to make sure that children don’t go back to where I started from.”
