Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has not made any financial contribution for the treatment of veteran filmmaker, Eddie Ugbomah, journalist and film curator, Shaibu Husseini, has revealed.
Writing in a Facebook post on Monday, Husseini said the committee set up to raise money for Ugbomah’s treatment received “no dime” from the Delta State Government.
“So no truth in the rumour flying around that they gave a ‘substantial amount’”, he wrote.
A native of Delta State, Eddie Ugbomah died in Lagos on May 11 at the age of 78 after a protracted illness.
He will be buried on Friday, July 12 in Ikoyi after a burial service at the National Theatre.
Qed.ng learnt that little has come the way of his family to organise the burial.
The National Theatre has donated space for a service of songs of Thursday, July 11 and burial service the next day.
Members of the deceased’s family are to provide diesel to power the generator as power supply to the theatre has been cut off.
Director-general of the National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB), Adedayo Thomas, is also supporting the family.
Known for films like Death of a Black President, The Boy is Good and Rise and Fall of Oyenusi, Ugbomah once served as chairman of the Nigerian Film Corporation (NFC).
