The Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), has debunked the viral report that its president, Chief Emeka Rollas was arrested and detained by the police in Umuahia, the Abia State capital.
Reports had it that Rollas was arrested following his alleged role in the imposition of an unelected chairman on the Abia State chapter of the guild.
Debunking the report, in a statement issued on Monday by the Spokesman to the AGN president, Cornel Udofia, the guild confirmed that Rollas was never arrested and detained as claimed in the report.
The statement read in part: “Our attention has been drawn to news making the rounds in local Abia blogs claiming that the AGN National President Dr Ejezie Emeka Rollas MON was arrested and detained by the police in Umuahia., Abia State.
“Ordinarily these blogs do not deserve this rebuttal but for the benefit of teeming supporters of our National President who has been doing a great job and for the records.
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“For those of you who have followed the AGN story in Abia it would be recalled that since 2024 a set of disgruntled elements led by one David Amalaha hijacked the Abia AGN by conducting an illegal and kangaroo election without the consent of the National body as enshrined in the AGN constitution.
“As a result, the Guild in Abia has been led by different Interim governments pending when the matter in court would have been over.
“Recently Mr Emmanuel Ehumadu aka Labista was appointed as the new Interim Chairman of the Abia State Chapter.
“January 9th 2025 was his first meeting and luckily the National President was around in the State due to the death of his mother In Law so he attended the meeting to encourage participation of all members.
“After his speech where he reeled out the National programs for 2025 somebody among the crowd raised up his hands to speak and he was given audience only for him to begin to rain abuses to the national body, issuing threats.
“At that point the national president sent a distress call to the AIG zone 9 who intervened and the boys were invited to the police for questioning and the meeting continued.
“At the end of the meeting the National President went to the zone 9 Umuahia and made an official entry of threat to life.”
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