When Reprudencia Sonkey, popularly known as Dencia, introduced her Whitenicious cream which she claims is for removing dark spots, she started having running battle with celebrities and the law.
When a Lagos-based publicist, Bobby Taylor, condemned her for bleaching her skin, with the explanation that the singer looked better with her natural toned skin, Dencia’s reply insinuated that Bobby was jobless.
The singer also had a go at Kenyan actress, Lupita Nyong’o, who read a letter in which a young girl said that she “was about to buy Dencia’s Whitenicious cream to lighten her skin” when Nyong’o “appeared on the world map” and “saved” her.
Dencia fervently defended her product, saying that it was misrepresented and that Whitenicious’ purpose is for “dark spot removal”.
Last year, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) said the sale of the cream is illegal and injurious to health, as it can cause cancer.
Team Dencia did not spare the DG of NAFDAC, Paul Orhii.
“Whitenicious is not made in Nigeria and has no connections with Nigeria. Doesn’t Nigeria have more problems than worry about Dencia? Why are people so pompous? He (Orhii) should get a life,” they replied.
Now that the cream is one of those banned in Cote D’Ivoire, can Dencia’s team dare that country’s authority as they did NAFDAC?
