Popular Nigerian actor and activist Yomi Fabiyi has reacted to actress Jaiye Kuti’s put up towards a few of their colleagues searching for monetary assist on social media.
Media Talk Africa stories that Jaiye Kuti, in a viral video on Instagram, condemned the current pattern of veteran Yoruba actors soliciting automobile items and monetary assist on-line.
She mentioned the older colleagues ought to take accountability for his or her current predicament following the careless monetary selections they could have made once they have been nonetheless lively within the business. She attributed their plight to their failure to organize for his or her future.
Warning them within the video, she mentioned: “All the actors coming to beg online should stop giving us bad names. This job doesn’t have a pension, so you need to prepare for the future. I’m already preparing for my future.”
Reacting to this, Fabiyi defined in a put up on Instagram that almost all of the veterans searching for assist had been exploited previously, and the current pattern mustn’t hassle anybody.
He wrote: “If anybody needs help and indeed comes public with his or her brand, name, and face only, I don’t see why it should bother anyone. If you cannot find the means to recover all these veterans’ losses via piracy and exploitation by capitalists, then let them breathe. We, the new millennium actors, are a little luckier, but not better. We must learn to respect people’s decisions, choices, and actions. All man for himself. Comparison is proof of nothing.
“No matter how uncomfortable and displeased you are with someone else’s decisions or actions, if it is not against the law and falls within the person’s rights, it is an outright act of arrogance, a crime, and grandeur of delusion to attempt to rubbish such person. Caveat! I hate pretence, arrogance, and fake lives.”
