Nollywood actress Sarah Martins has called out the operatives of Kick Against Indiscipline KAI for maltreating her while cooking at a location in Lagos.
Kemi Filani reported that Sarah had cried out to the public after allegedly being assaulted by uniformed men, presumably, Kick Against Indiscipline (KAI) officials while cooking for the less privileged on the street. On her Instagram page, she shared a video of her bruised hand, expressing heartache over their behaviour.
In a lengthy post on her Instagram page, she admitted that she was wrong to cook on the walkway, but their operatives were mean to carry away food meant for pøor street children without empathy.
She questioned what happened to empathy as she noted how the vulnerable people she was cooking for were excited about tasting a good meal for that day. Martins noted how the operatives cut their hopes short, traumatised them, and took away a big cooler of rice meant for 200 street kids.
The Asaba actress noted how she doesn’t cook on the street for content or for financial benefits because her social media platforms are not even monetised. She explained that she does it to bond with the street kids, making them feel loved, appreciated, valued and cared for by watching me cook for them with so much love and care.
“Yes I was wrong to cook on the walkway but KAI operatives were mean enough to carry away food meant for poor street children without empathy!
What happens to empathy???
Not for me but for the vulnerable people I was cooking for.
These are people who were already excited about having a taste of a good meal for that day; these were children who probably hadn’t eaten the entire day and the meal I was making for them was their only hope for the day.
You cut their hopes short!
You traumatised them!
You took away a big cooler of rice meant for 200 street kids.
I wasn’t crying because you took all my cooking utensils including the entire food meant for poor people;, I cried because hungry children depended on that meal for dinner.
And I ask again, what happens to empathy???
I do not cook on the street for content or for financial benefits because my social media platforms are NOT even monetised.
I cook on the street to bond with the street kids, making them feel loved, appreciated, valued and cared for by watching me cook for them with so much love and care.
They watch me cook from start to finish and they see the amount of love I pour into each meal I make for them and that’s what makes my own style of charity different.
There’s a difference between watching a loved one cook for you with so much love and admiration and seeing someone bring food to share with you.
The bond I’ve created with the street kids is what has kept me going for the past 7 years in this outreach.
For the fact that I wasn’t cooking to sell, I feel I should have been allowed to finish the particular meal, share with the kids and then be advised to discontinue for safety reasons instead of being treated like an animal.