Popular Nollywood actress Amarachi Igidimbah has blasted her colleague, Jerry Amilo and others who have been posting the body of Junior Pope after he drowned Wednesday, April 10, 2024.
The movie star described the act as “disturbing” before calling out such people for their insatiable “hunger for social media engagement”.
Amarachi Igidimbah also frowned at the act because she doesn’t want people to remember the Nollywood actor this way but rather, for the positive things he did before his demise.
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She captioned;
“The amount of rubbish I have seen since yesterday is so disturbing that I can’t stop being angry even though I am trying to control my fast fingers ….. What is this hunger for social media engagement , likes and comments ? Or is it for Mark’s money that we have lost our senses and empathy …. Some people want so bad to be the first bearer of the breaking news not minding if it’s false or true , others post video of a fellow human’s body without even considering his family or children that will grow into the internet age and google their father to see him in such a state , others even water mark video , as in his dead body is your personal content , are you laying claim to it or you want the world to know it was you that recorded it first hand 😡😭 ……..You really love or admire JP as a colleague and thats how you want the world to remember him ? …….. Let me not even go into the last alleged moments on that boat that caused the distraction for this accident 😭😭 ….. The hunger for contents will eat away souls if we all don’t stop at once !!! 😭😭😭😭”
Meanwhile, Jerry Amilo has come under heavy criticism for sharing the video which you can watch right here.
When Iheme Nancy saw the video, she expressed shock and disappointment. She wrote:
“Mr Jerry Amilo I am highly disappointed in you !!! You are a disappointment to Manhood , fatherhood , husbands , Nollywood , and the whole Nigerians as a whole ! How can you be so cold hearted , Mr Jerry ? How can you be so bold to celebrate this young man’s death in this manner ? You did not only watermark his corpse as if it’s your intellectual property , you turned deaf ears to people’s plea for you to take down the horrible post just to post a stupid advert barely 2hrs later , You posted his dead body but couldn’t even use 24hrs to mourn him if at all his death touched you before moving on …… Mr Jerry I applaud your boldness to be you , but you of all people that God gave a rare second chance to life , should know better , every man has a date and a pay day , Jp has paid his own price today , he won’t pay again , the rest of the days awaits all of us . @kingjerryamilo_”
sarahson_empire_: “Nothing pain me pass the video that Jerry amino posted 🤦🏽♀️💔”.
chikadibia_light_: “Jerry Amilo monetize Pope deed body with his name on the video, that’s to claiming ownership of Pope deed body video 😢😢😢😢. Sometimes,w*ckedness dey show for face but this is a talk for another day.”.
dst_queen: “Exactly.. Social media has cause a lot damage than good… Immediately he was brought out from the water they should have done CPR and pressed his stomach but instead everyone was trying to make content by videoing”.
j.codeofficial: “Well. Said I m shock at Nigerians, they have lost it Fully, even as we are stl praying, God is a miracle God,in every situation thee come out testimony. Why not some of you wait and pray 🙏, is there anything hard for the maker of heaven and earth to do? The one that created me and all of us, its so sad”.
rosemarychiomaamaefule: “Is high time the government now makes it a criminal offence immediately u video or snap an incident and post on social media cos a whole of people are going stark raving mad with 1st to post or have 1st hand information that is why they are a whole of careless death, instead of them to rescue or find a way to revive a person bsck to life, u see many people bringing out their useless phones to capture the moment and our government needs to make a compulsory CPR training to all schools, organisations, companies and communities to avoid this careless death every now and then”.
nwosuenyinnaya: “Was making a video of a dead man and posting on the internet really necessary. You can use his old pictures if you have to. We should consider direct family members and how these will affect them. Some of them will be seeing his dead body on the internet for the first time.”
wealthmirac_: “Which kind Mumu song be this na celebration we dey do , see person die painful death una dey play immolenization 🥺🥺.
But why is nolly wood just full of hate …why”.
blessedchizitere: “Please when finish showing the world please kindly delete okay for the sake of his wife and family on social media. This is heartbreaking. May his kindest soul rest in peace Amen. Angels take pope to paradise”.
rukiess: “Please this is unnecessary and insensitive , you don’t post people’s loved ones like this 🙏 for the sake of the wife and his family take it down sir!!!”
sammie__001: “What’s this madness with you people. The choice of song, the video, everything about this video is disgusting 🤮”
meeldread: “How does this make sense. This man had children for heaven’s sake!!! No privacy!! Una no dey consider people mental health? See wetin mature man like you do. Imagine seeing this first thing in the morning. Some people are still trying to process this whole thing but busy body no go allow una calm down. First to post naim concern una. Smh”
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