In De Mood
-given a licking worth any money
IT HAPPENED on Wednesday May 27. Jim was in Kastina, northern Nigeria working on a project called ‘Day 27’. He’d signed a three-day contract to play the lead character in the movie.

Jim Iyke

As production entered the third day, however, the crew ran into a bit of logistics problem, which caused a delay in the completion of the shooting.

Tied up in other commitments, Jim, who’d been paid N600,000 upfront, was ready to call it quits after the agreed three days, even though he hadn’t fulfilled his end of the bargain.

Panic stricken, production decided to offer him a few extra bucks to stay with the project, knowing that it would have fallen apart without his participation.

But true to his ‘bad-boy’ image, Jim turned a deaf ear to their pleas, and on top of that, refused to make any restitution seeing that the job had not yet been completed. He called a taxi, loaded his luggage in, and was ready to leave.

This was when co-producer, Amaka Olenka, decided he’d had enough of Jim, and called in the boys. And as the taxi was about to leave the premises, a drove of security men appeared out of the blue and stormed the place, stopped the taxi, and unceremoniously dragged Jim out of the vehicle, while maintaining he could not leave until he’d fulfilled his obligation.

Of course, our Jim-boy would have none of this, and in the ensuing fracas, he found himself not just outnumbered but ruing the day he did not try to be more amenable.

The boys not only beat him within an inch of his life, but they also dragged him back onto the set and made him complete his part at gunpoint, in spite of his many attempts to contact either his ‘people’ or his lawyers.