VIDEO: 1 year after Junior Pope’s death, survivor says he’s ready to say the ‘Truth’

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According to a survivor of the tragic boat trip that claimed the life of actor Junior Pope, the real circumstances of the tragedy have not been made public.

Abraham Gift Johnson, who claimed to have been on board, stated in an Instagram video that he had been too traumatized to talk about the incident until now.

Johnson claims that the stories that people told in the wake of the catastrophe were probably made up since the shock and trauma of the event would have prevented the people who were involved from giving the true testimony.

Johnson, whose real name was Ogolo, claimed to have spent a considerable amount of time in the hospital after the incident.

Johnson asserted that no Nollywood celebrities had visited the scene of the tragedy, citing fear as the reason for their absence in a video shared on Instagram by user @Odogwu_asaba.

There were eleven people on the boat, including Junior Pope, a makeup artist, a sound engineer, and other production personnel, according to the survivor, who identified himself as a production manager.

He disclosed that, despite the odds against him, he had survived even though the majority of the survivors had been wearing life jackets.

In an effort to clarify the circumstances leading up to the incident, Johnson insisted that he was now prepared to give his version of what happened on that fateful day.

In his words: “Everybody that talked on that particular day, I can bet you, they never said the actual thing that happened because anybody that went through that kind of incident, I no sure say you go get mouth to talk. The shock, the trauma and everything. I was hospitalised for over one to two months. No Nollywood person has visited the scene where the thing happened because of fear.”

“I was in that boat, we were 11 passengers in number including Junior Pope and the makeup artist, Friday my PA, Precious the sound man, and Olanti was there also. Out of the people that survived the incident, majority of them were wearing life jackets. I was the only person without it that day. It’s by the mercy of God that I’m here today and I’m wearing life jacket to go and see the place for the second time.”

“With that, I am going to tell you all what happened. I am the production manager. The one they said they gave money for life jacket. I am here to speak now and to tell the world what actually happened. We were just all going till when we get to a particular place before the incident happened. I am Abraham Gift Johnson known as Ogolo. All these while, I haven’t been able to talk because I was still in shock but right now as you can see I am alright.”

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