Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) have announced the relased by abductors of their kidnapped colleagues: Cynthia Okereke and Clemson Agbogidi.
According to a statement by the AGN on its official Instagram page on Wednesday, the movie stars were released unhurt and are in healthy conditions.
The statement read: “This is to gladly inform the public that the kidnapped actors Cynthia Okereke and Clemson Cornel Agbogidi have been released unhurt.
“The elated National President of the AGN, Ejezie Emeka Rollas, announced their release by the abductors who were touched by the spirit of God to set them free and unharmed President expressed our heartfelt appreciation to Nollywood industry and Nigerians at large for the support and prayers during the trying period.
“He urged members to be security conscious on and off film sets and always take precautionary measures on their personal security at all times”.
Okereke and Agbogidi were kidnapped on Friday, July 29, while they were returning from a movie set at Ozalla town in Enugu state. On Saturday, their abductors contacted their families, demanding $100,000 as ransom. However AGN President, Emeka Rollas said the guild was only able to raise N1.2 million.
In a video clip on social media, he said “While talking to the abductors, we were trying to explain to them that we were putting some funds together, we were contributing. We said that we have about N1.2 million. And they started laughing at us.
“They started mocking us and saying, ‘all those your celebrities posting on Instagram, why haven’t they contributed?’
The actors have however, been released but the statement didn’t say if a ransom was paid for their release.
