Nigerian actor, Yomi Fabiyi has reacted to a viral video by her colleague in the industry, Jaye Kuti asking older colleagues in the industry to stop seeking financial help on social media.
Jaiye Kuti in a viral video chastised her colleagues for seeking financial help on social media on Sunday.
Her words ”older colleagues should 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 added: “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.”
,In his reaction, Fabiyi explained in a post on Instagram 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 pretense, arrogance, and fake lives.”