Camera ready. Tape rolling. Action! … Cut, cut, cut. Definitely, it is not what you are thinking as this is surely not a fictional story from a movie scene. But rather, it is a true life story which had its origin from a movie scene. Confusing? It ought to be but it would soon be clear. Like they do in the movies, the two main dramatis personae in the story you are about to read are an Abeokuta, Ogun State based Yoruba actor who has a typecasting of a Police Officer and a young broadcaster cum journalist based in the same city and has dialectical version of the city’s nomenclature as part of his popular name. And there is another act that played a minor role of what they call “waka pass” in the final episode of the story but played a pivotal role of relaying the whole story to Saheed Ojubanire Online as our impeccable source.
Now, this is the story. Sometime in 2013, according to our source, the journalist was at his friend’s place relaxing before going home after a stressful day. Meanwhile, some ND students of Mass Communication from Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY), Abeokuta, were watching a Yoruba movie (title withheld) produced and directed by the actor in question. The journalist was deep asleep when one of the students woke him up suddenly and challenged the journalist who was in the habit of writing blunders in Nigerian movies on the social media, that he would never report a glaring blunder like they have just seen. But if it was from the production of those English speaking Nigerian producers, he would post it. And what was the blunder in the said movie? Here it is. Some Police Officers went to arrest someone in a scene and they displayed a “MAPOLY” course form as a Police search warrant!
Meanwhile, to worsen the matter, it was reported that the camera was said to have been zoomed on the course form, nay, search warrant that it was easy for the viewers to see what it truly was. That was a bad shot. And come to think of it, the content of a search warrant never needed to be seen by the audience in the first instance, it should have simply be handed to the culprit to open and see by himself. Worse still, no member of the crew saw the avoidable blunder till the movie hit the screens of the viewers. And those were some of the factors said to have been considered by the journalist before going ahead to blast the entire crew of the movie, mentioning their names, for a shoddy job. So, that became his sin with the Yoruba actor cum director of the movie. Hence, the journalist, according to the feelers we got, started receiving threat messages and calls that the actor said whenever he saw the journalist he would beat, molest and embarrass him.
But for 3 years, the actor never had the opportunity of running into the journalist he had designed a “mental search warrant” for. However, few days back, the journalist was said to have followed a senior colleague to a movie location in an area called Elega in the Abeokuta suburbs and lo and behold, they ran into the actor who had been praying to meet his prey, the journalist. Seeing the journalist for the first time, according to our “waka pass” source, the actor started boiling and spitting venom like a cobra whose tail had just been trampled upon. It then took the timely intervention of star comic actor, Otunba Bolaji Amusan better known as Mr. Latin, Fuji music star, Alhaji Shefiu Alao Adekunle a.k.a. Agbara Orin, Odunlade Adekola and Muyiwa Ademola who calmed the frayed nerves of the actor who was spoiling to exchange blows with the journalist.
The actor was said to have argued that the journalist should have looked for his number and call him to beg him when he was told he (the actor) was on his (journalist) trail. But what for? He was then quoted to have called the journalist names such as being useless, arrogant, and unprofessional element that should be taught a lesson of his life. And what if the likes of Mr. Latin who had seen the worst and best of the media bashing in their successful careers were not at the scene to mediate, would he have created a scene?
Anyway, that would have made a bigger story for this blog. Thanks to our “waka pass” character at the scene.
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