Celebrity's Hint: Stephanie Okereke Linus Reacts Over Alleged Script Theft

Stephanie Linus reacts over alleged script theft _ A certain legal practitioner, Daniella Madudu, has hauled Nollywood actress, Stephanie Okereke-Linus, before the Federal High Court in Lagos over unproven infringement on her intellectual property. _ In the suit, marked FHC/L/CS/878/17, filed through her lawyer, Mr. Rafiu Bello, this week, Madudu said the actress’s popular movie titled, Dry, was a variation of her novel, Behind the veil. The claimant supposed that Okereke-Linus altered the novel, which focuses on child marriage and the attendant health complications, such as the Vesico-Vagina Fistula disease in northern Nigeria, into the movie without due authorisation. In a press statement on Thursday, passionately disproved Madudu’s claim, emphasizing that her interest in the subject of VVF predated Madudu’s manuscript completed sometime in 2010. _ According to her:”The so-called ‘original literary work’ of Daniella Madudu, that I was supposed to have appropriated in my movie, has never been registered at the Nigerian Copyright Commission even as we speak,” Okereke-Linus said. _ She said her curiosity in VVF dated back to her undergraduate days at the University of Calabar, adding that she had since gone on to work on the subject with a number of organisations. The organisations, she said, included the Mercy Ships Aberdeen West Africa Fistula Centre in Sierra Leone; the Mariam Abacha Women and Children’s Hospital, Sokoto; the United Nations and the Government of Liberia, who, she said, invited her to participate in the anti-rape campaign, Stop Rape and the Liberia Fistula Project, sometime in 2008. _ She described Madudu’s claim as “something so ludicrous as to be able to find firm footing in the mind of any normal or rightly thinking individual. “Dry is more than just a movie; it is a righteous cause for voiceless women and young girls who have suffered the most debilitating kind of emotional and physical abuse, and anyone who seeks to denigrate this painful sacrifice with a smear campaign, with the intent to make gain or attract cheap publicity, simply lacks wisdom.. _ Read more at: www.playground.ng

  • playground.ngStephanie Linus reacts over alleged script theft

    A certain legal practitioner, Daniella Madudu, has hauled Nollywood actress, Stephanie Okereke-Linus, before the Federal High Court in Lagos over unproven infringement on her intellectual property.

    In the suit, marked FHC/L/CS/878/17, filed through her lawyer, Mr. Rafiu Bello, this week, Madudu said the actress’s popular movie titled, Dry, was a variation of her novel, Behind the veil. 
    The claimant supposed that Okereke-Linus altered the novel, which focuses on child marriage and the attendant health complications, such as the Vesico-Vagina Fistula disease in northern Nigeria, into the movie without due authorisation. 
    In a press statement on Thursday, passionately disproved Madudu’s claim, emphasizing that her interest in the subject of VVF predated Madudu’s manuscript completed sometime in 2010.

    According to her:”The so-called ‘original literary work’ of Daniella Madudu, that I was supposed to have appropriated in my movie, has never been registered at the Nigerian Copyright Commission even as we speak,” Okereke-Linus said. 

    She said her curiosity in VVF dated back to her undergraduate days at the University of Calabar, adding that she had since gone on to work on the subject with a number of organisations. 
    The organisations, she said, included the Mercy Ships Aberdeen West Africa Fistula Centre in Sierra Leone; the Mariam Abacha Women and Children’s Hospital, Sokoto; the United Nations and the Government of Liberia, who, she said, invited her to participate in the anti-rape campaign, Stop Rape and the Liberia Fistula Project, sometime in 2008. 

    She described Madudu’s claim as “something so ludicrous as to be able to find firm footing in the mind of any normal or rightly thinking individual. “Dry is more than just a movie; it is a righteous cause for voiceless women and young girls who have suffered the most debilitating kind of emotional and physical abuse, and anyone who seeks to denigrate this painful sacrifice with a smear campaign, with the intent to make gain or attract cheap publicity, simply lacks wisdom.. _

    Read more at: www.playground.ng

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