{"id":5426,"date":"2023-01-14T12:38:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T12:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/14\/why-i-disguised-didnt-want-other-nigerians-to-recognize-me-when-i-moved-abroad-lepa-shandy\/"},"modified":"2023-01-14T12:38:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T12:38:17","slug":"why-i-disguised-didnt-want-other-nigerians-to-recognize-me-when-i-moved-abroad-lepa-shandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/14\/why-i-disguised-didnt-want-other-nigerians-to-recognize-me-when-i-moved-abroad-lepa-shandy\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Disguised, Didn&#8217;t Want Other Nigerians To Recognize Me When I Moved Abroad &#8211; Lepa Shandy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Veteran Nollywood Actress, Folashade Omoniyi \u2013 Adewale, popularly known as Lepa Shandy, has revealed why she disguised herself and didn\u2019t want other Nigerians to recognize her when she moved abroad.<\/p>\n<h2>Veteran Actress, Lepa Shandy.<\/h2>\n<p>In a recent interview published by the Punch Newspaper, Lepa Shandy explained that many of the Nigerians she came across did not mind their business and as such, she didn\u2019t like staying around them, neither did she allow them to know who she was.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/4103b79227624861ac6be78cf3ea353d\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cited report. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In her words; \u2026 when I moved abroad, I didn\u2019t want people to recognize me, and I didn\u2019t like staying around our (Nigerians) people because they don\u2019t mind their business. I sometimes don\u2019t use make up so they won\u2019t recognize me. I just disguise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/223e171238bd4ecb82b4604eaee234e1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Veteran Actress who narrated some incidents to back her claim about persons not minding their business, went further to reveal that she once ran away from a shop when she heard a guy singing Baba Ara\u2019s song for fear of being recognized.<\/p>\n<p>What do think about this? Comment your thoughts below.<\/p>\n<p>Images: Punch, Guardian\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: INNOCESSON (via  Opera<br \/>News )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       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