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My inability to drive is spiritual – Popular Actress, Toyosi Adesanya
Popular Nollywood Actress, Toyosi Adesanya who recently escaped death with Fulani’s herdsmen talks about her driving fears.
The actress while speaking with Biodun Alao, talks on how she shuffles between Ondo and Lagos for movie productions and said “It’s the nature of my job, my husband and I stay in Ondo state and most times I need to travel around the southwest to feature in movies because I don’t want my face to fade away in the industry. Out of sight is out of mind so to remain relevant I have to keep featuring in movies and shuttling around these states is part of the efforts I have been making. Honestly, it has not been easy but God has been faithful.
My only regret is not knowing how to drive. I even went to train still I couldn’t drive and that has limited me getting some movie roles because it will take extra effort and start to achieve driving scene in movies. I have come to the conclusion that it’s spiritual I have a phobia of driving.”
Based on the unpleasant experience with fulani herdsmen in Ilorin last year, she said “It was a terrible experience. I don’t even like talking about it because everything happened right in front of me. We were on our way to a movie location and Awe was the one driving the car when armed men attacked us, they started shooting sporadically at us and he tried to dodge the bullet but unfortunately, the bullet met him through the side and he lost control of the car and the car somersaulted into the bus and he died on the spot. They took away our things including phones and money they were arms and we were there for hours they tried raping my PA twice initially she said she was menstruating, later she said she was pregnant. They dragged me away and said they don’t want to see my face, they attempted shooting my brother as well it was just God that helped us that day even after 5hrs they left we didn’t know we still stayed shivering in fear there. There was a Yoruba man amongst them and he kept saying we shouldn’t have travelled at that time. The incident affected me emotionally I had lots of nightmares after the terrible ordeal. It took me 2 months to come out of the trauma.”
Last year, Nigerian actress Toyosi Adesanya has narrated how fast-rising actor Juwon Awe died on their way to Ilorin, Kwara state. She explained that Awe was driving her to a movie set when the tragedy occurred and revealed that they were on the road when armed men attacked them and killed Awe, who was also the former personal assistant to the popular actor, Odunlade Adekola. They were heading to Damola Olatunji’s movie location when they were attacked. She said the armed men started shooting at them and Awe tried to dodge them but he got shot.
