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Social media begging has fast become a big thing in Nigeria today, with celebrities easy target for people who believe they should give back to the society through that means.

But Nollywood actress and film maker, Sotayo Sobola, has reacted to how much her space has been inundated by these beggars, especially those in the guise of begging for school fees. According to her, everyone needs help including herself
Check out her reactions below;


Sotayo’s reaction throws up concerns over fans abusing their direct with their favourite celebrities. Of course, while a number of celebrities have taken the begging fans to be part of their social responsibility drive, a lot of these beggars may not truly be who and what they claim to be. The end result of that is that these fake beggars taking advantage of celebrity CSR may actually spoil things for the genuine ones.
Don Jazzy, Toke Makinwa, and a few others have blazed the trail in their cheerful giving and willingness to help out these begging fans meet school fees and business assistance needs, sometimes doling out as much as N250,000 to one assistance seeker.
Like Sotayo, other celebrities such as Kate Henshaw and Brymo have also turned the blind eye to such requests in the past, harping on the ‘spuriousness’ of some of the claims by the so-called ‘help seekers’.
But for what it’s worth, We would love to know what you think about Sotayo’s reaction and the social media begging trend.

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It is well.... You too should stop begging the society when any of you is sick.

She should sharrap jor! Who she epp sef

Nigerians 2 can beg sha! Buh nah celebs give pple cause 2 b begging dem afterall dia vain display of expensive phones,shoes,bags and oda tinz giving pple impression dey avv d money dey neva get.

BerryAnny:
Nigerians 2 can beg sha! Buh nah celebs give pple cause 2 b begging dem afterall dia vain display of expensive phones,shoes,bags and oda tinz giving pple impression dey avv d money dey neva get.

Dahs true
Oya chop tiri gboosa

After showing your latest iPhone,your new mansion,closet of designer wears n bags,new ride etc

Wetin una dey expect before??

Make dem dey pray for your type of wealth,abi?
Dem go dey think of how to chop from it

Final

When they get sick now, their's will turn to publicity begging. See her mouth, thinking she is an island.
If u dnt want to be beggged, stop flaunting ur flambuoyant lifestyle online.
You should be happy people re begging you.

Its not my problem

e-begging

Wehdone ma

Rubbish! If you want to give give! And forget. most of you yeyebrities claim to have it all obviously not.

is MMM back to kill d unkilled

Beggingology
some people needs genuine help
some just need quick money to chop and clean mouth
So, wen you see celeb forming rich they beg them
O ye beggers, continue, we shall know the stingy ones... Like this one up there na stingy kind, she won't help her family as I dey see her so

Beggers everywhere

Not everyone has a giving heart.
But Mr/Mrs beggy beggy e don do.

Begging is bae. Ask them celebrity

God pls bless me so i can bless people!

The lady is right though.. Many Nigerians have this sense of entitlement.. Thinking you owe them because you are doing better than them.. Beg.. Beg .. Beg.. Wetin? Na only us dey suffer recession?
There was a thread created by a nairalander a few weeks back.. Dude promised to send some amount of money to those who have health issues on nairaland.. You'd be amazed by the number of regular posters who claimed they were sick with terminal diseases & were posting numbers, names and other private info..

The actors and actress are not rich. They are just managing.

You discriminate against beggars, as well as scammers. They have a life also. It's either we help them or they help us. The truth is beggars play a very important role in the society. I'm not a beggar and would never be one BY HIS GRACE but I would result into helping anyone as long as they NEED the help. BEGGING has been around since time immemorial (my ref. is the Bible) and it was never spoken against. Instead the Bible urges us to help them. They didn't choose to be so. They were put among us to make the circle of life complete. If u can't give, just say no and drive by or something. Don't try to justify your stinginess. Don jazzy and the likes should be the one complaining.

iBeg she should go and sit down
She get money
People wey get money never talk
Na she wan come talk

macsilver:
You discriminate against beggars, as well as scammers. They have a life also. It's either we help them or they help us. The truth is beggars play a very important role in the society. I'm not a beggar and would never be one BY HIS GRACE but I would result into helping anyone as long as they NEED the help. BEGGING has been around since time immemorial (my ref. is the Bible) and it was never spoken against. Instead the Bible urges us to help them. They didn't choose to be so. They were put among us to make the circle of life complete. If u can't give, just say no and drive by or something. Don't try to justify your stinginess. Don jazzy and the likes should be the one complaining.

Oboy chop tiri gboza..
You go well... No be China brain d your head.

BerryAnny:
Nigerians 2 can beg sha! Buh nah celebs give pple cause 2 b begging dem afterall dia vain display of expensive phones,shoes,bags and oda tinz giving pple impression dey avv d money dey neva get.

Gbam.

Everybody begs too, wen dey want to contest for Africa magic movie awards dey go online to beg fans to vote dem, fans also come back to beg them for money. So dat lady should understand dat she was once like dem, but today God has blessed her differently. #encourage dem not to blast dere flaws on social media it's bad of some celebrities. #people also beg Beyonce, Rihanna u will never hear dem blast dere fans on social media. #the ego of our naija celebrities are much.#God will help dem...