Ekike Hector A Prop Manager Not Arms Fabricator – Ak Movie Industry
… As Moses Eskor Demands Police Dramatic Dept.
By UbongAbasi Ise
Top echelon of the Akwa Ibom movie industry has faulted the police report accusing Ekike Hector of fabricating local arms.
It would be recalled that the Akwa Ibom State Command Police Public Relations, Mr. Odiko MacDon, in a statement, described the suspect as a welder who specializes in making and selling locally made Rifles and other types of guns to criminals.
But speaking with The Sensor, Ms Palmsilva Sikpo, the chairman of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, AGN, Akwa Ibom State Chapter, absolved Mr. Ekike Hector of the accusation, saying he is a prop manager that has been doing that for years and not a criminal as alleged.
Mr. Moses Eskor, a popular Nollywood movie director and producer, while speaking with our correspondent in Uyo Thursday, corroborated Sikpo’s position saying Mr. Hector is a prop manager who was caught with prop guns by the police.
Eskor explained that why the industry embraces the use of prop guns is that it is difficult to hire guns from the police for film-shooting, and some of the outmoded arms that could have been used to represent past epochs are not found in the police armory.
He further noted that arms found with Ekike Hector do not have trigger and other functions to fire.
“He is a props manager. Police arrested him for holding metal fabricated guns we use in shooting. We call it prop guns. They do not have trigger to fire, and they do not even have bullets. It is a props gun.
“It is not easy to collect guns from police. You would go through processes to collect them. And police do not have Dane guns; all they have are current sophisticated guns. So if I want to shoot a film that depicts the ‘70s when AK47 was not there at the time, I don’t need AK47 to do it. I must go and look for a Dane gun, and this guy used to have Dane guns. There are guns that were used in our history in 1950s, 1960s, and even in the 18th century. Those are the things police don’t have and so we don’t have to depend on police. We don’t have to go and look for that kind of guns at the police command, they don’t have them,” he said.
He said notifying commissioners of police on prop guns may be challenging as Nigeria usually redeploys commissioners intermittently, thus making it impossible for a new head to be familiar with the relationship already established with their predecessors. According to him, “we suppose to go and see this Commissioner of Police, but the problem is they change the commissioner of police like calendars. When you meet this one today, tomorrow another one would come.”
While calling on the police to release Mr. Ekike Hector, the ace movie director urged appropriate government authorities to set up a Police Dramatic Department so that film-makers could hire arms from the department.
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