By Adenike Lawal
Nollywood actress, Sarah Martins, has recounted a distressing experience with officials of the Kick Against Indiscipline (KAI), task force, whom she accused of assaulting her and disrupting her charity outreach in Lagos.
In a video shared on her Instagram page, Martins said the incident occurred while she was distributing free meals to the homeless, an act of kindness she said she undertakes regularly.
According to her, the officers descended on her team without provocation, harassing and intimidating them, before seizing her cooking equipment, food items, and gas cylinders.
Visibly shaken, the actress displayed bruises on her hand, describing the confrontation as “painful and unwarranted.”
“My heart is heavy,” she wrote. “I was simply cooking free meals for those who have nothing, and I was met with aggression and force. They took everything I was using. My only crime? Spreading kindness through food.”
Martins clarified that she is not a professional chef and that her outreach was purely a goodwill initiative to uplift the less privileged, not a commercial venture.
She has since appealed to relevant authorities to investigate the incident and hold the officers accountable, stressing that acts of compassion should never be met with hostility.
“All I did was share love through food,” she added. “If helping others now attracts violence, then we have lost our humanity.”
