Just as the Nollywood industry is reverberating with the N32million purchase of a landcrusier SUV by actress Destiny Etiko, popular movie star, Toyin Abraham has also revealed that she is expecting the delivery ofanother car which she spent millions of naira to purchase.
Taking to Instagram to first rebuke music act, Ruggedman for castigating female achievers as selling their sexuality to obtain huge favours from the opposite sex with which they buy cars and mansions, Toyin revealed that female achievers in Nollywood can afford to get such without selling their bodies.
An angry Toyin wrote that she needn’t go to that extent to buy a car because her pay after any job can procure such for her.
She wrote:
“I saw the social media post made by respected rapper, Ruggedman about women making more money and doing well better than men. I read between the lines and saw what Ruggedman implied. It is a little bit sad that many people on social media leeched on it with many derogatory comments about women especially those of us in Nollywood. It is important that I put this out there that many women make money and make good money legitimately. I know actresses who charge 2 million, 3 million and 5 million in this Nollywood. I get paid in millions of naira for gigs. As a a matter of fact, I just paid for a very good car worth millions of Naira and at the same time I know a lot of men in Nollywood who are doing extra ordinarily well and paid in millions. The fact that most of these men choose not to make noise on social media do not in any way mean that they are second class citizens in this industry. We need to stop attributing every woman’s success to her sexual prowess with men, women deserve the success they have as much as men without attributing it to their sexuality. Nollywood women like Bimbo Ademoye, Nancy Isime, Kehinde Bankole, Inidima Okojie , Sharon Ooja, Bisola Aiyeola, are getting paid in millions. Even script writers that are not in the limelight are getting paid in millions. It is disparaging to put the successes of these women within the box of their sexuality. A lot of women are doing great things legitimately. I am one of them and so also are many other women in other industries not just the entertainment industry. A woman is more than the sum total of her sexuality.”
Toyin Abraham Ajeyemi.