Amaechi Muonagor, the late Nollywood actor, receives farewell messages from Peter Obi and others

In attendance to pay their respects to the late Nollywood star, Mr. Amaechi Monagu, were Mr. Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s 2023 presidential contender, and Mr. Dom Onyenji, the State Commissioner for Culture, Tourism, and Entertainment and others.

On Friday, Muonagor was laid to rest in his Obosi rural home in the state’s Idemili South Local Government Area, surrounded by grieving family members and the Nollywood family.

In his condolence speech, Obi expressed his sadness over the icon’s passing and advised the icon’s family to find comfort in their faith and ask God for the icon’s soul to rest.

On his part, the State Commissioner for Culture, Tourism and Entertainment, Onyenji, described Nollywood as an industry for those who were creative.

He noted that the industry had lost a creative personality in the late Amechi Muonagor.

Onyenji maintained that the government of Anambra was on the ground to mourn with Nollywood as the legend played his roles well while alive and mentored stars in the industry.

In his remarks, the National President, Actors Guild of Nigeria, Mr Emeka Ejezie, urged the bereaved family to take heart as the deceased was a great man.

Ejezie, who was represented by a veteran actor, Mr Steve Eboh, prayed that God in His infinite mercy will give them the heart with which to bear the loss.

In her speech, the state chairman of AGN, Mrs Chinyere Anyaegbunam, said that they lost somebody who was very precious to all, emphasizung that the late icon was somebody people looked up to as a father figure in the industry.

Anyaegbunam said that late Muonagor mentored so many of them in the movie industry.