Omo ti ko ba keto nile, a ko lode: the child that refuses to learn its lessons at home, will be taught abroad.
For too long, the better-off in Nigeria/AFrica have sought mostly to be parasites on the efforts of other people. Self love + Self-help = Self-improvement. Until the various people of Africa learn to love themselves and seek to improve their competitiveness in the world, so long shall their lot be beneath the contempt of others.
Abati should inform his beggardly friend to invest his sweat, time and equity in a privately funded project. All over the world, the well-off invest in education, health, housing, and other social improvements.