One
of the victims of the midnight fire that destroyed some offices, as well as
property valued at millions of Naira, in the Department of Theatre Arts at the
Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education on Thursday, was popular actor
and MTN ambassador, Hafiz Oyetoro, a.k.a Saka.
In
a telephone interview with Punch news a few hours after the incident, Oyetoro
confirmed reports that his office was affected by the fire.
The
actor said he lost some personal effects, including awards, manuscripts of some
of his works in progress, the script of a TV comedy that he was planning to
complete by the end of this year and other important documents.
“The
most painful part of this incident is that I have been working on those scripts
for some years. I have to start again from the scratch,” he lamented.
But,
when asked if the documents of a major advertising contract he signed with MTN
in 2013 were not destroyed in the fire, the actor said, “My contract papers are
intact. You know they are legal documents. So I had left them with my lawyer
ever since.”
Also,
Oyetoro said that, contrary to general belief, his academic documents and
certificates were not affected by the incident. “Fortunately I removed my
certificates from my office and took them home a few days before the fire
outbreak,” he said.
The
fire occurred a few weeks after the popular comedian cum actor buried his
father, Alhaji Dauda Oyetoro, in his hometown, Iseyin in Oyo State.
Last
year, Oyetoro rocked the entertainment scene with his ‘shocking’ appearance in
the MTN’s I don port TV commercial after a brief stint as the face of
Etisalat’s advert campaigns.
Ever
since the crossover, made possible through a N20m deal he entered with
MTN, he has remained popular and many Nigerians have not stopped talking about
his amazing rise to fame and riches.
In
spite of the losses he suffered as a result of the fire, Oyetoro says he is not
flustered. “Although the incident is a setback, I am not discouraged. I know I
have lost a lot of important documents. Even the studio where we work, which
was an important facility to me, was burnt down. But I will continue to push
on, even if it means starting again from the scratch,” he said.
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