Yomi Fabiyi, a Nollywood actor, has denied the allegations
of s3xual harassment leveled against him by an actress Bimpe Oyebade, aka Mo
Bimpe.
Mo Bimpe had alleged that Fabiyi stopped casting her in
movies because she refused to give in to his sexual advances.
She accused Fabiyi of “constant harassment, bully and
threats.”
However, Fabiyi has denied the claims.
Fabiyi, in his explanation to Sunday Scoop, claimed it was
Bimbe who wronged him.
According to Fabiyi, he only wooed her and there was never a
case of harassment.
He said, “How did she get a major role in one of my movies?
She never came to me to learn about movies; she did not do any auditions. I had
already concluded my audition. She came to me as a fan and I decided to
encourage her.
“She knows what she did that made me change towards her. I
am an adult and I am free to be sexually attracted to anybody. At least, I am
thankful to God that she never said I forced her. There is nothing that says
that she has automatic roles (in my movies). I do not know the kind of
entitlement she has to think she can always feature in my movies. I will take
the time to explain what she did.
“The first thing she did that made me change towards her was
that I brought her into the industry in 2015 and on the last day of the movie
shoot in 2015, she left and I did not set my eyes on her until January 2019.
“In between that, she had shot three movies. I do not know
the kind of relationship she built with my sponsor, production manager and
cinematographer. All I just heard was that she was planning a production behind
me. What an audacity.
“I brought her into the industry because I wanted her to be
great and known. I wanted her to have a career, so, why was she cutting
corners? At the end of day, she called to tell me that she had a job for me. I
told her that the person she gave the job, she knew him through me because he
was my production manager. That was why I cut that person off from my
production forever.”
“She hijacked all my ‘backbones’ without consulting me. If
she had asked me, I would not have stopped her. Why are you stealing what is
yours? Several other things transpired but she can continue to tie it around
the fact that she did not give in to my s3xual advances.”
The actor also noted that s3xual attraction was different
from s3xual harassment. He added, “Ask her if she made s3xual advances to me
and not vice versa. I did not notice her first. She was the one that noticed
me. Besides, if we did make advances at each other, we are both adults. The
most important thing is that there was no force. Do not make it look like
because I am an actor, I do not have a right to have emotions or s3xual
feelings.
“S3xual attraction is different from s3xual harassment. We
need to educate these young people. We are talking about s3xual harassment and
she is talking about ‘toasting’. Is that not silly?”
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