The Actors Guild of Nigeria, AGN, has debunked the news that it’s National President, Dr Ejezie Emeka Rollas MON, was arrested and detained by the police in Umuahia., Abia State.
It was reported on Monday, that the National President of the AGN, was arrested and detained by the police in Umuahia, over his alleged role in imposing an unelected chairman on the guild’s Abia State chapter.
The report said the alleged arrest followed the legal action by one David Onyebuchi Amalaha to prevent the national body from imposing interim leadership after he was elected as the AGN Abia Chairman on May 20, 2023, in Umuahia.
But the AGN in a statement signed by Ambassador Cornel Udofia, spokesman to the President, said the report was false.
Udofia said that contrary to the reports making the round, the AGN president had only gone to the zonal command of the Nigeria police in Umuahia to formally make an entry over threat to life on his person by a member of the guild in Umuahia.
Udofia wrote: “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.
The National President was never arrested and detained as claimed in the report.
It is a figment of imagination of the writer calculated to embarrass and disrespect the Nigeria Police Force”
