Popular Nigerian actor, Chidi Mokeme, spoke about his personal life experiences in a recent interview with media personality Chude Jideonwo, shedding light on various aspects.
While discussing his life journey, Mokeme disclosed an incident involving his arrest by the police. Chude, known for his probing interviews, didn’t let the comment slide and pressed Mokeme to share the details of the incident.
True to his reputation of being open and candid, Mokeme revealed the circumstances that led to his arrest, his transportation to the police station, and eventual incarceration.
In his words, he said:
“I 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’re always moving at very awkward times of the night.
Either you’re 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’re going to work.
That’s the problem, “which work?”, that’s always the problem, “which work?” So you have to stop first, come down, because they’ll look at you and say “which work?” then tell you to come down and explain yourself. So whether you’re alone or you’re two or you’re three, which work?
Till today, you have production vehicles moving in the middle of the night packed full with crew members or cast, you have to stop and come down and explain yourself. Which work that all of you know each other? And if you don’t have a known face, you’re going to have a big problem.
So on one of those nights, we ended up in jail after we’d been rounded up with gun props. We had gun props in the car so they thought they were guns.”
