Yoruba actress, Mercy Aigbe Gentry might be covering her face in shame after she was exposed for wearing an outfit apparently for free.
Mercy Aigbe Gentry rocking the controversial crystal shirt
Nigerian actress, Mercy Aigbe Gentry is currently in the middle of a
social media spat with a fashion company, Phoonmy Afrika after she
reportedly breached an agreement with the fashion house.
According to reports, Mercy Aigbe was contacted to help the company
advertise the cloth by wearing it for a public event, sharing pictures
on social media and tagging the company as a way of creating publicity
for the company.
In return, she was to keep the cloth, a crystal shirt, as hers.
Events however took the odd turn when Mrs Gentry wore the clothes
and shared pictures but refused to give credit. This led to a round of
squabbles.
Read a full statement by the fashion company below:
"Someone who had worked behind the camera in the Nigerian
Entertainment Industry popularly called Nollywood and now a Fashion
Designer, I picked an interest in two Nollywood Stars @mercyaigbegentry
and @jumokeodetola for two different reasons but as the Yoruba adage
says: Isunmoni la nmo ise eni. On a closer look you get to know that
these people are not what they portrayed.
"Jumoke Odetola in her case lived up to standard as we
approached her to flaunt one of our designs on social media, she
responsibly did as agreed an even advertised our company to a few
friends while Mercy Aigbe on the other hand collected the sewn garment,
wore it to occasions, flaunted it on IG and refused to tag our Company
which was the gentleman agreement we had.
"The problem here is not the fact that Mercy did tag us but her
mannerisms when we approached her. Mercy slyly responded well to our
chat saying she would do a 'rerock' and tag us but immediately blocked
our comments on our post then blocked us on instagram. We put a call
through to Jumoke who acted as our link to Mercy tried to pacify the
situation but another conversation with Jumoke's manager spurred our
anger.
"According to Mr Abiodun Jimoh @abeyjomo, on telling Mercy
Aigbe that she shouldn't have worn the clothes since she knew she
wouldn't give the Company that gave her the garment the credit, Mercy
had replied that she has worn it and there's nothing anyone can do about
it.
"When we sent a message through Mr Jimoh that we would like to
have our garment back. Mercy said it they can come and pick it, she
later said No! She would not give it back.
"The big questions are? Did Mercy believe we gave her our
clothe as Charity? Is she from a motherless baby's home? Does she feel
so untouchable because she is a cheap star that she is? Does she by
anyway know with whom she is dealing with? Things are about to get messy
with Mercy and she should be ready for us because if we have to rip our
clothes off her skin, we will... just to have it back."
Mrs Gentry later denied knowing the fashion company which she had
blocked on social media. She was later confronted with a private message
she sent to the company.
