- By Halimah Olamide
Tragedy struck on Wednesday as a Nigerian actor Pope Obumneme Odonwodo Junior Pope drowned while returning from a recording session on Anam River, Anambra.
Details of how things turned awry were still sketchy at press time but the actor had earlier posted a video of himself while on a boat.
In the video, he was heard saying “See me lamenting the risk we take to entertain you, crossing river 9ja yesterday with no life jacket…who does that?”
National President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, Emeka Rollas, confirmed that the remains of Pope and others had been deposited in a morgue.
It was gathered that he drowned shortly after he made the video which he personally shared on his instagram page.
There was confusion as there were reports later that the actor merely passed out but was revived in the hospital. This however turned to be untrue as his lifeless body was shown at the hospital where he and others recovered from the river were taken to.
An eyewitness who said he saw the scene of the accident said there was a collision between the boat in which Junior Pope and others were and another boat.