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Nollywood Times reported earlier that actress Jaiye Kuti berated colleagues for begging on social media, calling them out to stop embarrassing the acting profession. The video went viral causing mix reactions among the Nigerians, and she has called her to order over the video.
Joining his voice to the people against the actress is popular Nigerian actor and activist Yomi Fabiyi. Who took an opposite stance against Kuti's post, warning her in the process.
Recall that Jaiye Kuti chided her older colleagues in the industry to take responsibility for their present predicament following the careless financial choices they might have made when they were still active in the industry. She attributed their plight to their failure to prepare for their future.
She warned them in the video: “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.”
However, Yomi Fabiyi reacted to the post by taking sides with the veterans seeking financial support. His explanation was captured in a post on Instagram where is said that the majority of the veterans seeking support had been exploited in the past, and the recent trend should not bother anyone.
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.”
Source: dailypost.ng
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