Reality TV star Victoria Iye, widely known as Vee, has weighed in on the controversy surrounding Grammy-winning artist Burna Boy and socialite Sophia Egbueje.
The situation escalated after Egbueje alleged that Burna Boy reneged on his promise to buy her a Lamborghini following an intimate encounter.
Addressing the issue in a TikTok video, Vee shared her concerns about the growing prevalence of transactional relationships in Nigeria.
“She [Sophia Egbueje] wanted to sleep with someone in exchange for a Lamborghini.’ That’s fantastic. But who was the person recording the conversation? Reveal yourself. I’m so scared of the person who was instigating that conversation while recording it. That’s the devil’s friend.”
“We’ve heard all we need to hear, especially from the horse’s mouth. She has revealed her situation with her own mouth. By next week, there will be another case of fooling. We are used to that. Everybody has their own opinion. Everybody has their views, morals on how things go.”
She pointed out that many women are in a constant struggle for financial stability, which often leads them to rely on men for economic support.
According to her, this survival-driven mindset has made such arrangements commonplace. Vee further analyzed the dynamics of these relationships, likening them to a supply-and-demand system.
She noted that as long as some men are willing to offer financial compensation for intimacy, there will always be women who engage in such exchanges.
“But this is the way things have been and that’s is how it’s always going to be. It’s demand and supply.”
“Everything has become very transactional. We normalise it now and pay the price later. There’s no point in speaking down on it or speaking against it or speaking for it, it’s just the way it is.”
“I feel like that beating on this subject is just a waste of time. There are always going to be men that want to pay for sëx and there are always going to be women that are willing to have the sëx.”
While she acknowledged that this trend is far from ideal, she also emphasized that it reflects the realities of modern society.
“Long shall it continue, there’s nothing we can do about that, especially in Nigeria where a lot of women are on survival mode. And it’s bringing out the worst in people. It needs to be checked.”
