Popular Nigerian Nollywood actor, Kanayo O. Kanayo, has urged the media to ensure proper verification of people’s identities before publishing any information.
He spoke in reaction to a story with the headline: “Nollywood Actor Among Nine Alleged Kidnappers Killed in Lagos.”
The actor in the reaction via a video on his Instagram page said he found the publication embarrassing to the Nigerian entertainment industry, adding that this was why he had to swiftly intervene as a “protector” of the industry.
Kanayo said: “My dear friends, my name is Kanayo O Kanayo.
“I am a Nollywood actor and a lawyer.
“Why l’m making this intervention is because I’m one of the protectors of the Nigerian entertainment industry in words and in deeds.
“I just read this breaking news: ‘Nollywood actor among nine alleged kidnappers killed in Lagos.’
“And I began to ask: Who is a Nollywood actor?
“Who is a Nollywood producer?
“Is it somebody as a producer who assembles some girls or boys conducting an audition, taking money from those to be auditioned, we call him a producer?
“An actor is now somebody who leaves his trade, finds Nollywood a fertile ground to foist his activities?
“Does an actress become a girl who sleeps with a man in the hotel, runs away with his dollars and she is announced as a Nollywood actress