Drug Abuse: AGN suspends Nollywood actor Jerry Williams indefinitely

The Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) has placed Nollywood star Jerry Williams on extended administrative leave due to his use of illegal substances.

This was disclosed in a statement released on Thursday by Emeka Rollas, national president of AGN.

The Guild has never before suspended a member for drug-related offences.

In the news, Mr. Rollas said that the Guild had been keeping an eye on his use of illegal narcotics from December 2022 until it got out of hand.

In the movie "Seven Books of Moses," Mr. Williams played the main guard Nwaniga and rose to fame.

The statement read: “As it is now, he cannot associate with other performers on set due to danger. He ought to have been suspended before. But we decided to let him undergo treatments, which he has been defaulting over time.

“But as it stands now, Jerry is a risk to himself and the doctors who might be acting alongside him on set. We, therefore, have decided to suspend him indefinitely until he gets a clean bill of health from a medical practitioner or a professional that handles drug abuse.”

Jerry, a Mechanical Engineering graduate, began acting in 2009 but took a break to finish school. He came back in 2013.

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