Reason we couldn’t sue Adanma Luke over Junior Pope’s death – AGN

President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Emeka Rollas has revealed why they could not sue movie producer, Adanma Luke over the death of Junior Pope.

He noted that the Guild had no legal backing to sue Adanma Luke, the producer of the ill-fated movie, ‘The Other Side of Life’ in which Junior Pope starred in before his passing.

Speaking during a recent interview on Arise TV, Emeka Rollas explained that it’s because the contract that Junior Pope signed had a clause stating that the Guild did not have the locus standi to sue her.

He went on to add that the contract stated that either the family or the wife had the right to sue.

“Update on Junior Pope, you know I was here and I said that we are about to sue. In the course of interacting with our legal adviser, he said that from the contract that Junior Pope signed with the producer, the AGN did not have the locum to sue. He said either the direct family or the wife should sue the producer.”

He added that they intend to begin licensing actors as they discovered that Junior Pope was not a due-paying member of the guild.

“Now we go back to the structure that we are talking about. Because we just came back from Los Angeles now, we are trying to change a lot of things. From the structure we are creating, tapping from the practice, we are going to begin licensing actors because we also find out that even the Junior Pope, as of the time of his death was not a due-paying member of the guild. He was just an actor who is big and has not paid dues in the last one year before his death.”