Hijackers of Nollywood entertainers connect, request $100,000
24 hours after conspicuous Nollywood entertainers and individuals from the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Cynthia Okereke and Clemson Cornel, were grabbed in an Enugu suburb, their abductors have reached their families.
The entertainers were accounted for missing after their relatives affirmed they didn't get back from a film area at Ozalla Town, Enugu state, on Thursday.
The two entertainers are eminent for featuring in films shot in Enugu and Delta states.
On Saturday, the AGN public president, Emeka Rollas, let Premium Times know that the hijackers are mentioning a single amount in dollars.
He said, "the ruffians have connected with the families and are requesting the amount of $100,000. We go to God for his mediation and for Him to place disarray in their middle."
"We are likewise working intimately with the different security agents, yet we are don't know what's in store from them on the grounds that exactly the same thing is going on wherever in the country."
Mr Rollas additionally expressed individuals from the Guild are working intimately with the groups of the people in question and the security powers to guarantee their protected delivery.
In a Punch paper interview distributed Saturday, Mr Rollas said, ''the criminals cleared the monies in Cynthia Okereke's record earlier today''.
Additional actions
As a feature of measures to thwart a recurrent event, Mr Rollas said that the Guild had requested its individuals not to shoot beyond the city and to guarantee that they make satisfactory arrangements for security in their areas.
AGN's Director of Communications, Monalisa Chinda, let the cat out of the bag of the hijack of the entertainers in a proclamation made accessible to PREMIUM TIMES on Friday.
Ms Chinda said their capture had expanded dread among individuals about the security of entertainers recording in the country.