confirmed to Nollywood Insider that he was actually assaulted and
injured in the fracas involving members of the Video Rental Operators of
Nigeria (VROAN) and some Yoruba movie makers and marketers. The ace
thespian said, “I was injured in the debacle but I would not like to
comment further on it on the telephone.”
Meanwhile the President
of VROAN, Kassim Olatunbosun aka Boe, has been declared wanted by his
members and the police. He is accused of wanton embezzlement of public
funds at his disposal. Kassim is said to have mismanaged the royalties
for marketers and film producers that his members paid into the coffers
of VROAN over the last two years. They also claimed that he refused to
call for elections after staying in office for more than 10 years.According
to information made known to NOLLYWOOD INSIDER, after a long meeting at
the Cultural Center, Alausa, Ikeja, on Thursday October 10th, 2013, by
his members and other concerned stakeholders, the enraged crowd besieged
his Onipanu office calling on him to render account of his stewardship
as VROAN’s henchman. However, on sighting the crowd while he was having
his weekly meeting with executives of the association, Kassim managed to
scale over a high fence into oblivion. This was after Jide Kosoko and a
few others had sustained injuries during a fight to apprehend Kassim.
Jide Kosoko
spoke further on the incident, “Actually, I am a member of the Board of
Trustees of VROAN, and we had been getting several reports that the
president of the association, Kassim aka Boe, has been in the office for
close to 10 years. We have received several complaints that his tenure
has since lapsed, and that there should have been an election, but he
insisted on staying. This is coupled with other atrocities of his, so
the BOT had to invite him, but he refused to come to any of the meetings
on several occasions. He goes about with thugs with dangerous weapons,
most of whom are not owners of video clubs.
”When his members
wanted to make trouble with him, we said no that they should leave the
matter to us, the BOT. I advised him personally, but he refused to yield
to advice. He then wrote a letter saying he will hold elections in
December which angered his members. The BOT then took some policemen to
his office, only for us to get there and find thugs all over the place.
They thereafter got violent with us, and one of them threw a bottle of
water at me; using charms to threaten us.”
Meanwhile, JideKosoko disclosed that the matter is now with the Nigerian Police Zone 2, Lagos.