Popular Nollywood actors and members of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Cynthia Okereke and Clemson Cornel, aka Agbogidi, were kidn@pped in an Enugu suburb, their abductors have contacted their families.
The actors were reported missing after their family members announced they didn’t return home from a film location at Ozalla Town, Enugu state, on Thursday. The actors are renowned for starring in movies shot in Enugu and Delta states.
the AGN national president, Emeka Rollas, told newsmen that the kidnappers are requesting a lump sum in dollars. He disclosed this on Saturday, July 30.
He said, “The kidn@ppers have made contact with the families and are demanding the sum of $100,000. We pray to God for his intervention and for Him to put confusion in their midst.
“We are also working closely with the different security operatives, but we are not sure what to expect from them because the same thing is happening everywhere in the country.”
Mr. Rollas also said members of the Guild are working closely with the families of the victims and the security forces to ensure their safe release. According to Punch, in an interview published Saturday. Mr. Rollas said,
‘‘the kidn@ppers cleared the money in Cynthia Okereke’s account this morning’’.
AGN’s Director of Communications, Monalisa Chinda, broke the news of the kidnap of the actors in a statement made available to newsmen on Friday.
Ms. Chinda said their kidn@pper had increased fear amongst members about the safety of actors filming in the country
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