{"id":141670,"date":"2024-01-22T10:29:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T10:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/22\/nollywood-legend-chidi-mokeme-recounts-how-he-was-jailed-with-his-crew\/"},"modified":"2024-01-22T10:29:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T10:29:50","slug":"nollywood-legend-chidi-mokeme-recounts-how-he-was-jailed-with-his-crew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/22\/nollywood-legend-chidi-mokeme-recounts-how-he-was-jailed-with-his-crew\/","title":{"rendered":"Nollywood legend Chidi Mokeme recounts how he was jailed with his crew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Nigerian movie icon Chidi Mokeme recently shared a story about a run-in he had with the police. According to him, he and his crew were stopped by the police one night while carrying some gun props.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1010805 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Chidi-Mokeme-233.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"647\" height=\"474\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Despite their efforts to explain the situation, they were still arrested and subsequently jailed, all because of the gun props.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI had a couple of brush-ins with the law. Back then, career-wise, entertainers always have brush-ins with the law. Why? Because first, we\u2019re always moving at very awkward times of the night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Either you\u2019re just going to the gig or coming from the gig, but it always happens at very awkward times. And what makes it very awkward is when they [police] ask you and you say you\u2019re going to work.\u201d He said<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He continued, \u201cThat\u2019s the problem, \u201cWhich work?\u201d, that\u2019s always the problem, \u201cWhich work?\u201d So you have to stop first, come down, because they\u2019ll look at you and say \u201cWhich work?\u201d then tell you to come down and explain yourself. So whether you\u2019re alone or you\u2019re two or you\u2019re three, which works?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1010799 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Chidi-mokeme-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2160\" height=\"1441\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Till today, you have production vehicles moving in the middle of the night packed full of crew members or cast, you have to stop and come down and explain yourself\u2026So on one of those nights, we ended up in jail after we\u2019d been rounded up with gun props. We had gun props in the car so they thought they were guns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chidi Mokeme is known for his roles in movies including \u2018Saviour\u2019, \u2018Abuja Connection\u2019, \u2018Last Kobo\u2019, \u2018Back Drop\u2019 and \u2018Blood Battle\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian movie icon Chidi Mokeme recently shared a story about a run-in he had with the police. According to him, he and his crew were stopped by the police one night while carrying some gun props. 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