The car belonging to Cynthia Okereke, a Nollywood actress who reportedly got missing, has been found, the Enugu State Police Command says.
This disclosure was made on Saturday by the Public Relations Officer of the Command, DSP Daniel Ndukwe.
“The current report at our disposal dwells on a case of an abandoned and recovered vehicle, as well as a missing person,” the PPRO said.
Ndukwe added that the vehicle was recovered at Four-Corners area in Ozalla community, along the Enugu-Port-Harcourt Expressway in Nkanu West Local Government Area of the state.
He said that “On July 29, at about 7:30 am, we received information that a red-colored Toyota RAV4 Jeep with registration number AGL 199 CY was noticed to have been parked in an abandoned way at Four-Corners on Enugu-Port-Harcourt Expressway.
“The location was visited and the vehicle recovered.
“Coincidentally, at about 11:30 a.m, of the same date, a report was further received stating that the vehicle belongs to one Cynthia Okereke (female), a Nollywood actress who was last seen on July 26.”
According to him, the report at the command’s disposal revealed that only one person was rmissing.
Meanwhile, the Actors Guild of Nigeria has confirmed two actors (Cynthia Okereke and Clenson Cornel) to be missing.
The Director of Communications, AGN, Monalisa Chinda-Coker, said in a statement on Friday that the families of Okereke and Cornel indicated that the two had not returned home since they left a film location in the Ozalla community.
The statement read, “The two members of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, Okereke and Cornel alias Agbogidi, were suspected missing after their family members confirmed they didn’t come back from a film location at Ozalla community.
“The two members were suspected to have been kidnapped and this has increased fear among members about the safety of actors filming in the country.”