The Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) has refuted reports that Mercy Johnson was a party to the boat tragedy that resulted in Junior Pope’s death.
Pope passed away in April in Asaba, Delta state, after falling into the River Niger. He was travelling to a filming location.
In the boat tragedy, the actor and four other crew members perished.
Nonetheless, there were reports that Thank God Ikoma, the survivor, stated that Emeka Mercy Johnson was on the boat when testifying about his escape.
Emeka was Mercy Johnson’s personal assistant and now goes by the name Emeka Mercy Johnson. The revelation suggested that the actress was a part of the unfortunate event.
However, the guild insisted that Mercy was not aboard the boat in a statement that was signed by the AGN’s national secretary, Abubakar Yakubu.
The AGN urged the public to ignore the reports, calling them “utterly false, baseless, unfounded, and idiotic.”
“Our attention has just been drawn to a disturbing and shocking mis- interpretation of statement of ordeal revealed by one of the survivors of the Asaba boat mishap which claimed the lives of Jnr Pope and four other crew members recently,” the statement reads.
“The revelation was made by Thank God Ikoma during a thanks giving service in a church recently where he mentioned that one Emeka Mercy Johnson who had served as a PA to Actress Mercy Johnson in the past and always referred to as Emeka Mercy Johnson apparently as his sobriquet.
“We vehemently condemn the bloggers this malicious mis-interpretation of the statement and urge our members, the general public and fans of Mercy Johnson to ignore the social media news as it is utterly false, baseless, unfounded and idiotic as Mercy Johnson was NOT on the ilI- fated boat.
“The mis-interpretation of the revelation was nothing but imagination of the blogger who could have been high on some substances. Please, ignore and disregard the statement and which was a calculated attempt to malign, smear and tarnish the good name, image and reputation of Mercy Johnson.”
