President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Emeka Rollas, announced on Thursday morning that Nollywood actor, Junior Pope Odonwodo, had been confirmed dead by medical doctors.
The AGN leader had, on Wednesday evening, debunked reports of the actor’s death.
However, in an Instagram post, on Thursday morning, he said Junior Pope had been certified dead.l by doctors.
Mr Rollas said the body of another actor he simply named Mr Friday had been identified.
“Its so so sad that our joy was shortlived. My first post was out of excitement when we noticed his tingling fingers. Two notable hospitals tried their best to revive him but to no avail. God knows the best. We finally lost him,” he wrote.
“Mr Friday corpse has been identified but three other corpses are [have] yet to be found.”
Movie producer, Stanley Nwoke, who was with the actor following the tragedy, also announced his demise on social media.
Junior Pope and four other actors drowned after a boat they boarded capsized in Anam River, Anambra State while returning from a movie shoot.
The Delta State Chairperson of the AGN, Emma Onyemeziem, also confirmed that the corpse had been deposited in a morgue.
Junior Pope’s last social media post was a video of him and four others travelling to the movie location on a boat, lamenting there was no life jacket and the risk involved in acting.
In his video, the 39-year-old actor said he was the only child of his parents and had three children to raise.
His colleagues have taken to different social media platforms to mourn his shocking death.
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