The national president of Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) Emeka Rollas has said that clergymen ridicule ailing Nollywood actors with public display of cash donations.
Mr Rollas made the statement in a recent interview with QEDNG while speaking about actors who run to the public for funds whenever they are sick.
He said; “We have also had senior members of the public, either from the religious people who have often used our members to create a kind of public ridicule. You bring a sick actor who has large fans and you put large sums of money on him and use it to say that you are helping the actor.
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“And these are people that you would go and meet ordinary and tell them that you have some actors that are sick and we need you to show support, either put money in our trust fund and they will rebuff you and the moment there is an actor who seems to have clout within the social media space runs and says he’s sick, you carry millions and put on the person’s hand and begin to say ‘we are helping the actor’ when you didn’t get a medical report of the actor, you didn’t find out what was actually needed.”
