How to go about it when relatives drain you with money demands

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A while back, there was a storm on social media and then in mainstream international media. It was about star striker Togolese Emmanuel Adebayor’s spat with his family. He penned a long post on his Facebook account about his over-demanding family which he accused of not giving a damn about him but only his money. As a player in the English Premier League, Adebayor earns quite a tidy sum every so often running into billions of shillings.

In his post, among other accusations, he said his family had sold his cars and rented a house he had bought them. He cried out about supporting his family from the moment he started earning money and built his parents a permanent house at age 17.