Star actress Stephanie Okereke Linus-Idahosa as well as other top
Nollywood stakeholders are now in the eyes of the storm as they are
being kept under watch by the Economic and Financial Commissions, EFCC,
after a break-away producers group in the Nigerian movie industry known
as the Association of Nollywood Core Producers, ANCOP, petitioned the
anti-graft body over a N50 million largesse donated by Governor Godswill
Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State to support the industry. The association is
alleging massive fraud in the disbursement of the fund and petitioned
the EFCC and the Special Fraud Unit, SFU, to investigate the likes of
Stephanie Okereke, National President of the Association of Movie
Producers, Zik Zulu Okafor, the National President of the Directors
Guild of Nigeria, DGN, Andy Amenechi and the Secretary General of the
Actors Guild of Nigeria, AGN, Yakubu Abubakar, for collecting and
pocketing the funds without the consent of the industry’s stakeholders.
In the petition signed by ANCOP, “The Governor presented Stephanie and
the others a prototype post-dated Zenith Bank cheque number 00063639
with Akwa Ibom State Government as the account name, issued in favour of
Guild of Nollywood Stars. We also gathered that the Governor, in his
usual generosity, gave each of the visitors N500, 000 cash. Expectedly,
the massive publicity given to the entire episode by the press generated
heated debates. In fact, it polarized the industry till today. We are
demanding that you immediately commence a full-blown investigation into
the alleged fraudulent act over the N50 million Governor Akpabio gave to
Nollywood to carry out a specific task but now domiciled in the account
of one of the over 30 associations and guilds in Nollywood.” Hmmmm,
this is getting interesting.source: pulse.ng
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