Nollywood actress Nkechi Blessing Sunday, like her senior colleague, Iyabo Ojo, has apologised to the Theater Arts and Motion Pictures Practitioners Association of Nigeria, TAMPAN, insisting, however, that she will never stand with a sexual assaulter.
Recall that Iyabo Ojo had tendered her apologies to the thespians body, to which she belong, unlike Nkechi Blessing, a few days after the body proscribed the two of them and banned its directors and producers from working with them.
In her Instagram post, Nkechi Blessing stated that the past few days has been of mixed feelings of anger, concern, disbelief, shock, and confusion, and she still does not understand why the body gave the proscribing order to its directors. According to her, she never spoke against the thespians body, respected elders and colleagues who are its members. “The last couple of days has been of mixed feelings, anger, concern, disbelief, shock, and confusion”, she began.
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“I did not get why TAMPAN directed their members not to work with me because there is nowhere that I spoke against TAMPAN, respected elders and colleagues who are their members. The only thing I have done is to speak against the culture of rape, pedophilia attitude and stood against Legemiami who tactically gave support to a man who has been alleged to sexually harass a minor…i will never be friends with those who are friendly towards assault, sexual harassment and molestion of any kind”, Nkechi Blessing added.
“I had to speak against this culture because this minor needs to be protected and this is not just about the minor in particular, it’s about the minors all over the world especially minors in the Nigerian space. For so long a time many people do not see what the big deal is about sexual harassment, rape and assault on women generally and the sickening trend now are those men who seek pleasure in assaulting minors sexually. No reasonable person should keep quiet upon hearing about the assault of a minor. As much as we should seek the truth, our first reaction should be to protect the minor and perpetuate awareness against sexual assault of minors, that was what I did and I would be more than glad to do that again.”
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Acknowledging that her threats to expose Jide Kosoko’s acts towards her and the curses she rained on his generations, even the ones yet unborn after he threatened to frustrte her out of the industry was disrespectful, Nkechi Blessing concluded, “I have nothing but love and respect for TAMPAN, its members, and the elders. I acknowledge the fact that my response to Daddy Jide Kosoko’s threat against my career was disrespectful, for that, I sincerely apologize to him and I say I am sorry Sir.. as I was driven by my emotions but I will never be sorry for standing against rape, sexual assault and molestation of minors“.
