Friday, May 2, 2014

HOW AMAKA IGWE DIED


It is no longer news that Nollywood director and producer, Amaka Igwe, died last Tuesday (April 29). However, the circumstances under which she died have now been made public, and the facts are just too painful to bear. The producer was in Enugu last Tuesday, making preparations for an Igbo-language soap opera, when she suffered an asthma attack. She could not get relief when from using her inhaler, and the decision was made to take her to a hospital.



There was no doctor at the first hospital to which she was taken, so she was taken to the teaching hospital in Enugu. However, at the teaching hospital, it was discovered that the doctors were on strike. On strike! On strike!! Can you believe that? She later died as she was being conveyed to another hospital for medical assistance.

So, those are the ugly circumstances under which we lost one of our best and brightest in the industry. It was an avoidable and totally unnecessary death. A tragic way to lose such a brilliant and enterprising individual, who still had so much to give. We pray that God grants her family the fortitude to bear this irreparable loss.


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