By Yemi Itodo A cross-section of Benue women have demanded an autopsy for the late Benue-born Nigerian Nollywood actress, Ada Ameh. ...
By Yemi Itodo
A cross-section of Benue women have demanded an autopsy for
the late Benue-born Nigerian Nollywood actress, Ada Ameh.
Ameh, 48, reportedly slumped and died around 11:53pm on
Sunday in Warri, Delta State, where she was visiting an oil company magnate and
his family.
The comic actress-cum-producer shared a video of herself
enjoying dinner with her host family on Instagram hours before she was
reportedly dead.
Some women from her home state of Benue have called for an
autopsy to ascertain the true cause of her death.
One of the women, former Benue State Governorship aspirant,
Dr. Roseline Ada Chenge, said she was shocked at the news of Ameh’s sudden
death, saying she had a telephone chat with the “The Johnsons” actress, a few
hours before the time she reportedly died and that she was in good health.
The former Lower Benue Managing Director disclosed this in a
video she shared on her official Facebook page Monday evening.
Mrs. Chenge said, “Good day Nigerians, with pain in my heart
and deep sorrow, I am here this afternoon to ask questions. I have been trying
to call online to ask these same questions but nobody is picking my call. And I
need to call and ask Nigerians and also ask Nollywood.
“I am Egnr. Ada Chenge, I am Benue by origin. I am Idoma. I
woke up this morning to see on social media that my sister, whom we call the TV
goddess in Idoma land, collapsed and died. I am so shocked, so shocked that my
brain is not able to calculate it.
“Precisely about 5:15pm yesterday (Sunday), 17th of July,
2022, I put a call across to Ada. Because I came to Lagos from Benue and I am
staying in Lagos in my house. I called her at about 5:15pm and she picked the
call and said ‘aunty, your Excellency, how are you?’. And I said I want to see
you, I am in Lagos. And she was like ‘oh aunty, I am in Warri’. And I said what
are you doing in Warri? And she said ‘aunty we went for the burial of the
parent of one of my friends. We are hanging around, we are doing one or two
things there.’ And I said okay when you return I want to see you because Idoma
land needs you right now for a very special mission. And she said ‘okay aunty,
I will be in Lagos tomorrow morning because I am shooting throughout this week
in Lagos’.
“I spoke with her myself, she was in high spirits, she was
in a high mood. There was no depression or mental issue. Yes, she was going
through a lot after her daughter died. But if you checked her Instagram page on
Saturday when she left for Warri, you can see the mood that she was. And in the
afternoon, I saw another caption online that she slumped when she was eating
about 12:53.
“No, that is not true. Because I spoke with her for close to
about 10 minutes. I spoke with her yesterday about 5:16. So, that was after she
ate that meal. So there was some problem. There is a missing link. What’s going
on? I am hearing she went to Warri, she was treating herself, she went to Warri
she was staying… I don’t understand. She told me precisely ‘aunty I will be
back on Monday. Her Excellency, when I come on Monday, I may not be able to see
you because of Lagos traffic. Just send me the address, I will be with you on
Tuesday’.
“You can imagine how my brian is going; that I spoke with
her 5:15pm and she died this morning. Yes, people die like that. But Ada Ameh
is such a star that she cannot just disappear from planet earth without us
knowing the real reason.
“Since morning, I have called her line like 20 to 50 times.
I sent a text that I am Engr. Ada Chenge from Idoma that we heard something
about you. Any that is with her phone can you call me? Are you in touch with
her people in Otukpo? Are you in touch with the people in Lagos as to
Nollywood? But no reply,” she added.
Mrs. Chenge challenged the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) to
insist on conducting an autopsy on Ameh’s corpse to ascertain the true cause of
the death while assuring the support of relevant Idoma stakeholders in getting
to the root of the cause of Ada Ameh’s death.
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