The late Nollywood comic actor Stanley Okoro was poisoned while on a movie set, and it was a fast one that killed him Wednesday just hours after he ate it .
That’s the position of his cousin Okoro Loveth who described him as a loving person.
According to her, Stanley had a couple of shoots in Enugu and Asaba days before his death, and he finished the works only to return to his Owerri base poisoned.
He ate a lot, Loveth, who lived in Enugu, said.
“Usually, whenever he came to Enugu, he’d either call me for food or call one of our cousins to get him food. Stanley liked food a lot. He ate a lot,” she told the Daily Post.
“So after the movie shoot, he went back. He apologised that this time, he could not meet with us but that he’d be coming back the next week.”
Coming home, he suddenly felt uncomfortable. He started sicking up what he ate in Asaba.
“The thing started happening to him as if he had a stroke and he started vomiting. He was vomiting black liquid,’ said Loveth.
She believed it was poisoning.
“A native doctor invited even disclosed he was poisoned.”
As Stanley was walking to the toilet, he shouted for help. His chest was burning. Then he collapsed.
“So the person used a fast poison. Maybe as they rounded up shooting and decided to eat, the person just took advantage.”
Stanley was believed to be a fast-rising Nollywood comic. This could have provoked his killers to envy.
That’s if the poison diagnosis by the native doctor is anything to reckon with.