Working conditions in Nollywood slave-like – Gideon Okeke

Gideon Okeke

Actor Gideon Okeke has said that the working conditions in the movie industry are ‘gruesomely ‘slave-like’.

The movie star made this known in an Instagram post on Tuesday.

According to the Tinsel star, actors are not well paid but would appear on the red carpet of events looking like ‘bags of money’.

He said: “The pay is peanuts. The food is whacked! The working conditions are gruesomely slave-like…But come the day of the red carpet premier…We dress up looking like a bag of money. E no add up jorr.”

“WAIT ! Awards season is coming again. You will see all of us looking like PEACOCKS on the red carpet. Like a BAG OF MONEY. Don’t ENVY ANYONE O. Na Packaging. Na wash. Now dem don even Dey give money for BEST DRESSED.

“Taking the light away from the film wey dem come to appraise. You IGN’ANT (Ignorant) like the Americans would say. We’z be IGN’ANT,” he concluded.