‘Junior Pope didn’t pay dues’ — AGN gives update on late actor’s case with Adanma Luke

‘Junior Pope didn’t pay dues’ — AGN gives update on late actor’s case with Adanma Luke

 Emeka Rollas, the president of the Actors Guild of Nigeria,
AGN, has given reason for his failure to sue actress Adanma Luke over the death
of late actor, Junior Pope.

 

The late actor died alongside four crew members on April 10
2024, after their boat capsized in the River Niger in Asaba, Delta State, while
on their way to movie location.

 

Actress Adanma Luke is the producer of the ill-fated film,
‘The Other Side of Life’, in which Junior Pope starred.

 

Following the tragic incident, the AGN suspended Adanma.

 

However, giving an update on the case, the AGN president,
Emeka Rollas stated that it became impossible for the guild to sue the movie
producer because Junior Pope wasn’t a due paying member.

 

Also reviewing the contract that the late actor signed with
the producer, Rollas explained that only Junior Pope’s direct family or wife
had the right to sue.

 

Speaking during his latest interview on Arise TV, Rollas’
disclosed that he is working on restructuring the guild.

 

“Update on Junior Pope, you know I was here and I said that
we are about to sue. In the course of interacting with our legal adviser, he
said that from the contract that Junior Pope signed with the producer, the AGN
did not have the locum to sue.He said either the direct family or the wife
should sue the producer.

 

“Now we go back to the structure that we are talking about.
Because we just came back from Los Angeles now, we are trying to change a lot
of things. From the structure we are creating, tapping from the practice, we
are going to begin licensing actors because we also find out that even the
Junior Pope, as of the time of his death was not a due-paying member of the
guild. He was just an actor who is big and has not paid dues in the last one
year before his death.”

 

Watch him speak below:

 
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Source: ‘Junior Pope didn’t pay dues’ — AGN gives update on late actor’s case with Adanma Luke

 - NigerianEye

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