Ireti Doyle, a Nigerian actress, has revealed why she removed herself when her daughter was accused of fraud.
Abimbola Ngozi Onyeulo, commonly known as Kachi, Ireti Doyle’s daughter, was implicated in a business controversy in 2021.
Abimbola, the owner of Kachi Beauty Products, was charged with scamming her consumers.
An inquiry revealed how the entrepreneur allegedly stole over N40 million from her customers after promoting a hair business scheme that promised to make individuals who joined its wholesale distribution wealthy.
The “empowerment scheme” had attracted many young women and men in Nigeria and the diaspora, most of whom trusted Abimbola because of her mother’s celebrity as an actress.
Abimbola introduced a distributor bundle including batch buying. Subscriptions to the silver category cost N300,000, gold subscribers N500,000, platinum subscribers N1 million, and diamond subscribers N5 million.
However, charges of fraud from over 60 consumers caused her mother to withdraw from the venture.
In an interview with Chude Jideonwo, the actress stated that she had to distance herself from the incident since her daughter, although having no role in the alleged company, was not doing anything to clear her name.
Ireti Doyle claimed that while trying to resolve the conflicts and clear her identity, Abimbola instructed her to “mind your business”. In her own words:
“In her defense, the few times I decided to reach out to her and say, ‘a random person reached out to me and this is what they said, would you like to deal with this what’s going on?.
“She will give me a detailed explanation with proof and tell me how it is being sorted. It got to a point where I was now like, ‘hello I’m not customer care, I don’t work for this company.’
“You know another statement that has been weaponised is ‘as a mother’. Because of ‘as a mother’, so you too you’re stepping into situations that are really none of your business.
“It got to a point I didn’t like how the situation was being handled even on her part because the customer is always right.
“But I didn’t see any decisive action on my daughter’s side to take the heat off me. There was a time she told me to mind my business. It’s her business, she will handle it and I should go and clear my name anyhow I see fit.”
Remember that the actress just confirmed her divorce from ace actor Patrick Doyle.
The celebrity couple married in 2004. According to accounts, Patrick remarried around a year ago. Watch the video below:
