A number of Akwa Ibom residents have criticised Nollywood filmmaker Moses Eskor, who chairs the Akwa-Cross Chapter of the Directors’ Guild of Nigeria (DGN), over his handling of the cosmetics artist Abigail Frederick affair. They are now seeking the exhumation of her body.
Abigail perished together with prominent Nollywood actor Junior Pope and three others when a boat transporting them from a movie set overturned on the Anam River in Anambra State.
Mr. Eskor, the Akwa Ibom State Governor’s Special Assistant on Entertainment, previously stated that Abigail’s body was buried on the riverbank because her family couldn’t afford to pay for the necessary arrangements, which cost N150, 000 and included an ambulance to transport her body home.
According to him, N310,000.00 was gathered to help Abigail Frederick’s family pay for sacrifices and transport her body back to Akwa Ibom State.
However, it was insufficient because the family hired a cab to and from for N180,000.00 and paid an extra N20,000.00, totaling N200,000.00. As a result, they were unable to afford the sacrifice, which cost N150,000.00.
According to the list Mr. Moses posted in a now-deleted post, he contributed N10 of the N310,000 raised by people.
Reacting to the development, a businessman, Aniebiet Antia, described Eskor’s action as “studpid, terrible and a shame,.”
Mr. Antia demanded that the body of the young woman be exhumed and offered to pay for the sacrifices and cost of conveying her body to Akwa Ibom.
“Moses Eskor, I actually knew you would bring down the post. What the hell. The most stupid post have ever read on Facebook. You could not make it public for us to contribute? Exhumed her tomorrow, myself and others will contribute and bring her back. And you accepted 200k bus hiring? Gosh. Money that would have perfected the ritual? Jesus. Even with the fact that we were asking you how much in your first post you refused to answer. This is Terrible,” he wrote.
Danie Ok, wrote: “Moses Eskor has never proven me wrong. He talks anyhow. He doesn’t think at all. If you used to watch his political campaign videos, you will know the level of his thinking. Just imagine this insensitive and insulting post on the family of the deceased Akwa Ibom girl who died alongside Pope Junior. What was he trying to achieve with this post? To take glory for raising money to bury the girl?
One Soundcraft Aidee expressed shock that a hotelier and aide to the Akwa Ibom State Governor donated N10k to the family of the deceased.
“Meanwhile, he is the SA on Entertainment to the Akwa Ibom State governor. Since a hotel owner/SA to the Governor and a Film Producer/SA to the Governor couldn’t afford N150k for rituals and Ambulance to bring back her remains, what stopped them from posting it earlier on this platform and highlighting? Because I would have comfortably contributed N100k as a MUSICIAN/SA to the SP. Entertainment industry una dey whine us,” he wrote.
