Popular actor Femi Ogedengbe, has reacted to claims that he is now a gardener in the U.S.
The actor, who said his move to the US was due to his financial status adding that he is in fact a guard and not a gardener as many have claimed.
In a chat with Kemifilami, he revealed
“I have relocated to the U.S. I got there in January 2016, and my family joined me in July, 2017. I relocated because I just couldnât cope with the way my life was going for me in terms of poverty.
I saw myself as one of the very great actors in Nollywood. In 2005, I discovered that the Nollywood industry, where I belong, was becoming more and more a tribalistic industry because a few financiers who were throwing in money for productions dictated who appear in the movies. .
So, more and more, we discovered that those of us, talking about Emeka and others, we were not getting the jobs we should get based on merit, I had to move over to the Yoruba genre and even at that, I discovered that the Yoruba genre was more like a help- me-I-help you outfit that couldnât pay my bills, I just couldnât cope. .
I bless God for a good wife, everything got messed up, I was practically begging to feed. I looked into it, I have been travelling out of the country since 2007, I told my wife that we have to make a sacrifice. .
I need to move out of the country and seek a greener pasture and as God would have it, the plans worked out. To the glory of God today, we are in the US together. I am a Security Guard, a job that takes care of me, my family and my people back home, while I upgrade my film-making skill. .
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I work as a security personnel, I trained to be a Security Guard and I obtained a guard card, which is the criterium to work as a guard, and maybe I might own my security company soon too.”
it’s well