Nigerian rapper Chibuzor Azubuike, aka Phyno, has condemned putting one’s old parents in retirement homes.

The Igbo rapper was recently a guest on the In Your Opinion UK podcast when he was asked to share his opinion on a story about a Ghanaian man and his wife.According to the story, a man’s white English wife wants her Ghanaian husband to put his 80-year-old father in a retirement home. It was said that his wife had left him many years ago after finding out about his other kids from different women. In reaction to the story, Phyno said that in Africa, people do not put their parents in retirement homes but would rather pay relatives to look after them.

In his words: “We don’t put our dad in retirement homes in Africa. You’d rather put some people in charge to take care of your dad, like relatives, and pay them to look after your dad than to put your dad in a facility. What are you talking about? For him to be with other old people? It doesn’t work that way.”

When the rapper was asked if the news about his father having other children from strange women would sway his decision, Phyno said it doesn’t stop the man from being his father, and he will still give him a good life before he dies.