Baba Ijesha: Iyabo Ojo, Nkechi Blessing React To TAMPPAN Warning

Nollywood actresses, Iyabo Ojo and Nkechi Blessing have reacted to a warning from the Theatre Arts and Motion Pictures Practitioners Association of Nigeria (TAMPPAN).

AllNews Nigeria earlier reported that TAMPPAN on Sunday issued a statement that the association will not tolerate any reckless accusations, abuses, and embarrassment against the association and the movie industry or on issues concerning Baba Ijesha.

Speaking on behalf of the Board of Trustees, veteran actor, Jide Kosoko had said, “The attention of the Board of Trustees of TAMPPAN and Elders of the Motion Picture Industry has been drawn to the malicious damages being done to our sector by some unruly individuals that lack any iota of discipline and who feel they are above the law.

“We particularly observe the continuous derogatory statements made by Iyabo Ojo against the association and the industry as a whole. As pioneers of this noble industry, if we fold our arms and allow the continuous blackmail that sends negative signals across the world to go unchecked, the current situation that has impugned on our integrity will continue to grow to the detriment of humble practitioners, whose only source of livelihood is the practice of indigenous language movies (promoting language to preserve culture).

"Unfortunately, Nkechi Blessing has also joined in the ignoble tirades against the association and by extension, the industry, and we say enough is enough.

“As TAMPPAN BOT members and elders of the industry in the Yoruba genre, we daresay to Ojo, Blessing, and others like them, that if they think whatever visibility they have achieved today is not through the Yoruba sector of the Nigerian motion picture industry, they should, at least, realise that the industry gave them the enabling environment for whatever they may have become today.

"An offense against one is an offense against others, and we will get other associations involved in tackling any further infringement on our rules and shared values. None of these infringements will henceforth go without repercussions.”

Iyabo Ojo, Nkechi Blessing Break Silence

Actresses, Iyabo Ojo and Nkechi Blessing have reacted to the recent suspension action by the association.

Reacting to TAMPPAN's new position, Iyabo Ojo took to her Instagram handle with a quote about how the culture of silence continues to encourage child molestation.

“I can never be silenced, know that & know God,” the actress wrote.

 

 

 

 

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Nkechi Blessing in turn took to her Instagram story to query the motives behind Jide Kosoko’s decision to blacklist her.