Actors Guild Moves To Restructure, Set Up Six Committees 

By Amaechi Elemona

In a move that has been roundly applauded as the first best step towards repositioning and resolving some of the issues that have almost torn the fabrics of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) to shred, the leadership of the AGN last week announced the setting up of five sub-committees including welfare, membership, merger and Inter guild activities and a committee for standard contract. The fifth committee is the committee for the ratification of patrons; a committee that observers say may have been set up to resolve the issues surrounding the recent appointment of Senator Elisha Abbo as Patron of the AGN. Senator Abbo’s appointment which the guild announced in March has received wide spread condemnation from within and outside of the guild. 

AGN President Emeka Rollas

 However, the guild in a statement said its decision to set us the ‘powerful sub-committees’ was in line with the vision and mission of the leadership of the guild to transform the guild through innovative and creative programs that would help reposition the guild and offer succor and new hope to teeming members.  Public Relations Officer of the AGN Monalisa Coker who signed the statement disclosed that the AGN President Ejezie Emeka Rollas has inaugurated five powerful sub-Committees to help propel the restructuring of the Guild for more effective and efficient performance, service delivery and to reckon with the post Covid-19 socio-economic changes. 

The release named the actor Keppy Ekpeyong Bassey as chairman of the committee on standard contract while the committee on membership is to be headed by the actor Bob Manuel Udokwu. Veteran actor and Former President of the AGN Zack Orji is to head the merger and Inter guild activities committee, while award winning actor and former President of the AGN Segun Arinze is to chair the patrons ratification committee.  The task of superintending the welfare committee rests with the actor and politician Desmond Elliot.  Other notable members of the sub- committees include, Joke Silva, Richard Mofe Damijo, Bimbo Manuel, Alex Ekubo, Ada Ameh, kate Henshaw, Hilda Dokubo, Ireti Doyle, Monalisa Chinda, Okey Bakasi, Ego Boyo, Emeka Enyiocha, Femi Branch, Sani Danja, Hajia Salma Ibrahim, Moji Oyetayo and many others.