Yomi Fabiyi Slams Jaiye Kuti for Dragging Actors Who Beg Online

Yomi Fabiyi, a Popular Nigerian actor and activist, has responded to actress Jaiye Kuti’s social media post criticising some of their colleagues demanding financial support.

In a viral Instagram video, Jaiye Kuti denounced the growing habit of seasoned Yoruba performers asking automobile presents and financial help online.

She stated that the older colleagues should accept responsibility for their current situation as a result of reckless financial decisions they may have made while still working in the company. She blamed their predicament on their failure to plan for the future.

Warning them in the video, she said: “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 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 pretence, arrogance, and fake lives.”