Nollywood actress Rita Edochie has reacted to a trending death news about her colleague, Osita Iheme popularly known as Pawpaw.
In a lengthy post on her Instagram page, she revealed that she had seen death news about the actor almost twice, and surprisingly, many netizens believed the fake gust and were mourning him in comment sections.
Rita stated that the constant death news about actors is getting out of control as she noted how such news was made about her, and a photo of her on a movie set was used to spread the news. The sister-in-law of veteran Pete Edochie stated that social media has done more harm than good to society, even though it has also been a constant source of enriching most Nigerian youths.
Calling such behavior madness, Rita stated that one doesn’t need to grow pages through death wishes on innocent people.
“If one blogger and one hungry social media content creator haven’t been mercilessly dealt with, the rest won’t learn.
I as a person, think this is gradually going beyond control. This is not the first, neither the second Nor the third, it has become a recurring media practice by so-called bloggers and content creators, my question is this, why, in the name of God, would you wish untimely death on someone especially the Nigerian celebrities, simply because you feel we are famous and can fetch you the traffic, engagements, and funds that you don’t deserve.
This rumor has come up before. A couple of days ago, it came up for the second time, pictures of my great son and veteran colleague, Osita Iheme popularly known as Paw_paw trended everywhere on social media with captions that they were dead. Crãzy netizens believed the fake gist and began commenting RIP on themselves.
I have said it before, and I’m saying it again: social media has literally done more harm than good to society. It has also been a constant source of enrichment for most Nigerian youths in the country, but the abuse is getting out of hand.
Over the years, it’s been about character defamation just to generate traffic; now uta as if the defamation thing is becoming common; you have now switched to spreading death rumors on celebrities and making the world believe that isn’t true.
My great husband and I, sir Pete Edochie, were also victims of the heartbreaking rumor.
I can remember when I shot the movie Calabash, where I played the mother of Ini Edo, my character died in that movie and the flesh was meant to be decomposed; these bloggers started posting that they had an accident with their entire family members and died, not me.
These set of bloggers also said that Sir Pete traveled to the United States, and the they slumped and died, not him.
This is madness, and it must have to stop.
You don’t have to grow your pages through death wishes on innocent heads, if we all die today, as celebrities, na who una go come dey dey watch. Gbonu Ndi Ala Ndi Ala?
Well, I have come to understand that the majority were created by God, yes, but sometimes Satan dey still C”.
