Family Buries Actor Amaechi Muonagor In His Hometown

Nollywood icon Amaechi Muonagor Amaechi Muonagor, a Nollywood hero, was buried on Friday in his Obosi country home in Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State, eliciting emotions from family members, relatives, and the Nollywood family.

Peter Obi, the Labour Party's 2023 presidential contender, and Dom Onyenji, the Anambra State Commissioner for Culture, Tourism, and Entertainment, attended to mourn the late actor.

Obi, in his condolence speech, regretted the icon's passing and advised the bereaved family to take heart, praying to God for the repose of his soul.

Onyenji, for his part, stated that Nollywood had lost a creative personality in the late Amechi Muonagor. 

The National President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, AGN, Emeka Ejezie, urged the bereaved family to take heart as the deceased was a great man.

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

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