Popular actor, Pete Edochie and Destiny Etiko have been petitioned to the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu by the Shiite Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), over the latter’s movie.
A new Nollywood movie titled “Fatal Arrogance”, which featured Pete Edochie and Destiny Etiko was said to have dramatised the Islamic group as terrorists, according to the petition.
The petition which is already in the public domain has sent shock waves and fear among the acting community.
The petition, IMN, insisted portrays Muslim as terrorists, while venting anger on the movie that revolved around the incident that happened between the Shiite sect and the convoy of Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai in Kaduna.
The media forum of the sect in a statement released by Ibrahim Musah said that the movie is capable of causing disunity in the country.
“The Islamic Movement in Nigeria wishes to call upon the respected professionals of Nollywood to address this issue immediately.
“If film producers are not careful, some disgruntled elements in governance will make them side with the oppressors against the oppressed as the film “Fatal Arrogance” is meant to achieve. Genocide is involved here; any move to justify the brutal and inhuman Zaria genocide of December 2015 is an affront on the Rome Status of the International Criminal Court…….”
CAPITAL POST recalls that the sect’s altercation with the Army Chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Yusuf Buratai led to arrest and detention of the Shiite leader till date.
Sect members in their thousands have been protesting detention of their leader, his wife and others without success.
