Veteran Nollywood actor and producer, Kanayo O. Kanayo, has publicly accused teen actress Angel Unigwe and her mother of breaching a filming contract.
Kanayo claims that Unigwe’s mother prematurely withdrew her daughter from a project before the agreed-upon contract period had concluded.
The filmmaker expressed his frustration and urged fellow Nollywood producers to boycott the young actress.
In a video via his Instagram account, Kanayo threatened to disrupt any film shoots involving Unigwe in response to the alleged contract violation.
Kanayo said, “A particular woman has been holding producers to ransom. And this is unfortunate; it has happened to me. Unfortunately, she is Angel Unigwe’s mother. A contract is reached by every producer, whether written or orally. But we found out that immediately after this woman takes money from you, everything changes. I’ve gotten reports from people before it happened to me.
“It happened last night that she took her daughter at 9 pm, when a particular day we agreed had not expired. 12 midnight is expiring into another day. She came and took her daughter at 9 pm.
“This is a clarion call for every producer. Please, I beg you, in the name of professionalism and all that unites us, from this moment, the 21st day of June 2024, any set that employs the services of Angel Unigwe, I will come to that set and make sure filming does not hold. You guys know what it is for an artiste to walk out on a set. There was no issue. I want to assure all of you, we had very good working relationship with Angel. [But] Her mother has been threatening many producers. So please, from this moment on, I will monitor every filming schedule. Any set where I found Angel Unigwe would be disrupted.”
