Nollywood actress Peggy Ovire shared a heartbreaking incident on her Instagram page where a crew member on her movie set was arrested for allegedly stealing a gas cylinder and other items. The suspect, identified as Chizoba, pretended to be a member of the production team. He stole generator parts worth N80,000 and sold them for N15,000. Later, he attempted to steal a gas cylinder but was caught in the act by vigilant neighbors who had been aware of his previous thefts. Peggy Ovire warned other filmmakers not to employ him and recounted her encounter with him during the film shoot in an apartment she had provided for the crew to rent.
She wrote;
“Dear FILM MAKERS, this post is for you all to Never employ this guy called Chizoba I met him on a production I was in, the production I was in, the production was filming at an apartment I have them to rent, immediately the job was over this guy came back, made sure neighbors had gone to work during the day. Stole generator parts 2 weeks ago & went to sell the part worth 80k for 15k, he later came back on Saturday pretending like he was helping to refill the gas cylinder but stole the Gas cylinder & took it again to sell. All the neighbors were at alert. This same guy came again today for the 3rd time this Monday morning, while someone else was cooking, they noticed that all of a sudden the gas cooker wasn’t working anymore by the time they rushed out, they realized that their gas cylinder was missing.Immediately security was alerted. This guy quickly took a bike & was running. Luckily he was caught I was at the gym when I was called that they had caught someone who came again to steal & he was claiming to be a Movie film maker. To think on that production he begged me for money & I gave him out of kindness despite the face that I had never met before ohh.”
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