Award-winning music producer and singer Cobhams Asuquo has said that bullies almost made him drop out of school.
The visually impaired music star disclosed this in an interview published in Saturday Punch.
“I attended a boarding primary school and for me, the environment and atmosphere were very different from what I had been used to at home. The shock was such that I wanted to drop out of school in primary two.
“The routine was quite a lot for a young boy like me who had been used to being woken up by his mother and asked what he wanted for breakfast.
“The head boy of the school then didn’t like me much because I spoke with an accent I picked up from watching television which they couldn’t understand.
“He and a few other boys did all they could to make life difficult for me. The situation got to me and I wanted to drop out of school at that point.
“Fortunately for me, a lot of those boys passed out the following year, so things became much easier for me in school,” Mr Asuquo said.
Asuquo who grew up in a military barracks in Jos, Plateau State said that though his parents weren’t wealthy, they gave him so much love.
The 37-year-old said in the interview that he did all the things children did despite being born blind.
“That period was fun because I was able to do all the things most children around could do despite my visual impairment. I remember rolling tyres on the streets with the other children back in those days.
“I was very competitive. If any child did something around me, I found a way to do it better,” Asuquo said.
