Nollywood veteran actor, Pete Edochie is in trouble as the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) has attacked him over the role he played in a yet to be released movie, titled; “Fatal Arrogance” which is produced by Anosike Kingsley Orji.
According to the IMN “Fatal Arrogance” is sponsored by the “Nigerian Army to cover up the alleged December 2015 massacre of Shiites by soldiers where 348 people were allegedly killed.
In a statement by the IMN’s Spokesman, Ibrahim Musa, said; “Pete Edochie attempted to give IMN a bad name by attracting “cheap sympathy” from Nigerians with his narrative. Edochie’s explanation was “inexplicable, his reasons flawed and his excuses unimpressive, irrational, and at best absurd”.
“The petition written by the IMN to the Inspector General of Police and the Film’s Censors Board doesn’t threaten anyone’s life. Issuing of threats has never been in our character,” the statement read.
“Pete Edochie should be honourable enough to accept that he allowed himself to be used to further vilify victims of one of the worst state-sponsored massacres of its citizens. He could still redeem his name as other actors in the ill-fated film are doing.”
“If Edochie has any character as he claims, he would not have accepted to act any role in a film that seems to change the narrative and distort history based on a book distorting facts! If he had any integrity, he would not have accepted to appear in a movie tarnishing the image of an oppressed personality like Sheikh Zakzaky and still think he did nothing wrong because the Sheikh was not mentioned by name.”
“Any serious artist worth the name must, first of all, undertake some kind of serious research to get the facts of any script brought to him right.”
“Had he been bold enough to cross-check, he would have realized that genocide took place in Zaria in 2015 where over a thousand Nigerian lives were wasted by the sponsors of the film.”
“He would have come across the very many attempts by the perpetrators to hide these heinous crimes, firstly by the burial of their victims in mass graves, an internationally recognized crime…”
“He would have realized the matter is currently a subject of investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The script before him is a continuation of that desperate attempt to distort facts.”
It is Interesting to know that IMF has petitioned the Films and Censorship Board as well as the Inspector-General of police over the movie.
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