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Actor Kevin Uvo has taken to his social media handle to tackle his colleagues in the movie industry who according to him are a leading a fake life.
In a post shared on his Instagram page, Kevin said that some of his colleagues will lose a loved one and start ”forming cry” just for social media.
Actors Cynthia Okereke and Clemson Cornel Agbogidi released by kidnappers Actors Guild of Nigeria have announced that kidnapped actors, Cynthia Okereke and Clemson Agbogidi have been released by their abductors.
According to a statement released by the Actors Guild of Nigeria on its official Instagram page on Wednesday, August 3, 2022, the movie stars were released unhurt and in healthy conditions.
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This is to gladly inform the public that the kidnapped actors Cynthia Okereke and Clemson Cornel Agbogidi have been released unhurt. The elated National President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, Ejezie Emeka Rollas announced their release by the abductors who were touched by the spirit of God to set them free and unharmed.
The Guild has arranged for medical checks and psychological support for the victims. On behalf of their families, the National President expressed our heartfelt appreciation to Nollywood industry and Nigerians at large for the support and prayers during the trying period.”
“He urged members to be security conscious on and off film sets and always take precautionary measures on their personal security at all times. Okereke and Agbogidi were kidnapped on Friday, July 29, while they were returning from a movie set at Ozalla town in Enugu state.
On Saturday, their abductors contacted their families, demanding $100,000 as ransom. However AGN President, Emeka Rollas said the guild was only able to raise N1.2 million.
In a video clip on social media, he said “While talking to the abductors, we were trying to explain to them that we were putting some funds together, we were contributing. We said that we have about N1.2 million. And they started laughing at us.
They started mocking us and saying, ‘all those your celebrities posting on Instagram, why haven’t they contributed?’
The actors have however, been released but the statement didn’t say if a ransom was paid for their release.
Plagiarism is one of the major problems facing the creativity sector among us which is the entertainment industry. There have been instances of people taken up the ideas of another person to developed into their own.
One of the Nollywood actor, popularly known as Jayzeez has cried out to his colleagues who are trying not to let him gained from his hardwork as he accused these unknown colleagues of stealing the concept of his latest work “Oko Ramota”and this has generated a lots of reactions from some of his colleagues in the industry.
The popular and talented actor made a five -minute video crying his eyes out about some people are using the clips he posted on social media from some scenes of the movie to create their own stories around it and then going for the movie’s sensation, Aunty Ramota to shoot another video with the same concept with his..
He explained how he suffered to shoot this video which according to him was the first production in his name and the probably the most successful of his productions as could be seen from the engagements he got from just dropping pictures and some clips from the movies on his social media.
The actor while trying not to cry which he could not help, said he had to sell his land, borrowed money from people he was not supposed to borrow from, so as to make this production successful. It was now this same movie that someone sat down somewhere and decided to take the credit. He explained how these people, in order to overshadowed him, decided to make use of actors that are bigger than those he used in his own.
He however, urged his fans and Nigerians to please disregard any of these movies as he is the original owner of ‘Oko Ramota’ and that it would be released soon. He also begged the people behind this with tears in his eyes to please let him reap the fruit of his labour.
Remember, some weeks back the actor was working on a new movie which has an Instagram sensation, Aunty Ramota in it and this video actually got large engagement on the page of the actor and even without telling anyone, people would know this was the biggest production of the guy ever. The anticipation and engagement was so overwhelming, it was now this work that some people wanted to take away from him.
