Nollywood seeks help – The Nation Newspaper

Olaitan Ganiu

NOLLYWOOD is just not smiling. The actors are searching for monetary help for a few of their colleagues who’re at present battling with one sickness or the opposite.

Ernest Asuzu, Victor Olaotan, Pa Kasumu are amongst entertainers that need assistance.

Final week, after over three years on a sick mattress, an image of veteran actor Victor Olaotan resurfaced on the web. Within the portrait, the gifted actor’s well being situation seems deteriorating as he sat on a wheel chair.

In October 2016, the Tinsel star was concerned in an auto accident and suffered nervous system damage. He was driving to a film set when the ghastly accident happened round Apple Junction, in Festac, Lagos.

Following his current photograph, colleagues, household and mates of the actor have reached out for monetary help. The 68 year-old actor wants $250,000 for his medical therapy.

Anxious by Olaotan’s ill-health, actor Seun Ajayi took to his Instagram deal with and wrote: “Please let’s assist Uncle Victor Olaotan get again on his ft.”

The actor who was once a loyal member of the Catholic Church as soon as mentioned that the issues in Africa require extra religious fervency.

“I grew up in a Catholic setting and was a dedicated member till I left for a Pentecostal church. The issues in Africa require extra religious fervency than what the Catholicism was giving me, so I needed to go away,” he was quoted.

Additionally, fashionable actor, Ernest Asuzu, trended after a video clip the place he was begging on the streets of Lagos surfaced on-line.

In an Instagram video shared by John Louis, the actor was shirtless and seen begging for alms on the road of Oke-Afa in Isolo, Lagos.

“So we’re calling on Nollywood to come back and help their member. It’s not solely to behave the movie, however this man additionally can’t even stroll,” Louis mentioned.

Asuzu, who’s at present down with a stroke-related illness, mentioned he intentionally eliminated his shirt in order that Nollywood practitioners would really feel his ache. He additionally solicited monetary help from well-meaning Nigerians to allow him to deal with his medical payments.

He, nevertheless, mentioned folks ought to cease spreading false hearsay about him.

“I’m alive! Individuals are simply spreading false rumours that am lifeless. What do they acquire in doing that? An excessive amount of-wicked ones on the planet.”

Film practitioner, Emeka Rollas, had reportedly mentioned that the rationale actors seeks for monetary help is as a result of entertainers are usually not nicely paid.

Based on him, for each motion pictures aired on TV stations royalties are paid to producers and never actors.”