Actor Junior Pope Odonwodo has died.
According to reports, four actors including Junior Pope fell into Anam River in Anambra State, on their way to a movie location and their bodies have been recovered.
The actor had earlier shared a video of himself and others on a boat, on their way to the movie location.
Captioning the video, he wrote: “See me lamenting….The risk we take to entertain you; crossing river 9ja yesterday with no life jacket…. Na wahooooo Who does that ??”
Some of his colleagues reacted in the comment section of the video shortly after his death was announced.
“Jesus! Oh Lord! Oh Lord,” Tana Adelana wrote.
“I’m so sad. can’t believe this. Big Sam where are you? am shaking,” Yvonne Jegede wrote.
The 39-year-old was married to Jennifer Awele.
They have three children together.
I don’t say much here anymore for a lot of reasons but I’ll say this, this was all preventable deaths if the minimum standards of safety was followed. If we in this business take ourselves a bit more seriously and practice this profession with all the seriousness it deserves. Nobody should go into a boat without a life jacket. Period. No producer should send people into one nor should anybody cast/crew enter anyone. How many deaths are enough?…… Richerd Mofe Damijo….
What a tragedy ! What a shame ! How could these young men take this kind of risk. No life jackets and you can’t swim. Ahhh. This is so,so sad.
May God receive their souls. Amen🙏….. Zik Zulu Okafor