By Miracle Ogunde

Following the death of Nollywood actor, Pope Obumnene Odonwodo, popularly known as Pooe Jnr., an upcoming Actress Anne Nnebedum, has explained her reason for quitting the Asaba movie production, which she described as ‘Asabahood’.

The actress also shared the horrors that go on behind the scenes including rituals, use of poisonous snakes for scenes, sexual molestation and others.

In her post on facebook, Nnebedum post said, “I think it’s time to expose Asaba film sets
If you have worked in Asaba film sets you would know how they ignorantly do dare d’evil scenes without any safety measures.

She continued, “This was the reason I had to quit there cause it messed up with my m’entaI health and instead of me to continue complaining, I’d rather leave.

“It’s cause this particular scene caused the death of a popular person that’s why awareness is being thrown out.

“Let me give you instances of daredevil scenes done in Asaba
Using REAL LIFE Anaconda snake to do scene to portray 0gbanje and they tell you that they have juju controlling the snake, then they tell the upcomer actress to enter river with the snake, knowing that it’s a wild animaI that can flip and kiIl that actor. Sometimes they bring p’oisonous cobras 😡😡 and claim juju would make it not to bit€.

“Another d’aredevil scenes they do is “fire scene”, the way they do it ehn, if you see it you would panic! Mind you no fire extinguisher 🧯 close by o
If you are telling them that safety should be priority, they would alienate you like you are the fo’ol whereas all them d’umbasses are the wise ones

“Another d’aredevil scenes they do is w€apon f’ight, this people legit like to prove points and do sina Rambo and zubby Michael
Especially the upcomers, they legit hit themselves real hard with real bottles, sometimes people bleed on set. And they laugh about it cause, treatment is taken and they get away with some of it.

“Another d’aredevil scenes is “River scenes in unsurveyed area”
Like any river na river.. what they do is just to go call a juju person that would give them a go ahead. I remember one time I was talking about random wide animaIs in the river side and how someone with g’un (a well experienced security) should be around, they took it as too much talk that would incure expenses
I walked out of that set! Cause it was disgusting. Juju is the safety method they take there.

“Many upcomers we don’t know about have lost their lives in Asaba but was covered because they are not known.

“Asaba film set prioritizes juju more than anything, same with Yoruba film set.

“Another thing that would come to light soon is how they r’ape upcoming underage actresses in the industry.

“Even popular actors, producers, directors that are your fave do this.
IT’S UNTIL SOMEONE WHOSE H€AD ISN’T SMSLL DI€S IN THE PROCESS, AWARENESS WOULD COME OUT ON THAT ASPECT TOO.

“It’s sad that Jnr Pope head followed to create the awareness
Cause trust me, if he didn’t join in, those crew d€ath won’t be heard! It would be swept under the carpet real fast. It’s just sad! This messed with my sleep last night, I was awake on social media.
I don’t know why people choose to stress me like this.”