Why I Relocated Overseas, By Actor Femi Ogedengbe

Nollywood actor Femi Ogedengbe, has revealed that he relocated overseas because of the hard times in the country.

“I have relocated to the U.S. I got there in January, 2016, and my family joined me in July, 2017,” the actor who presently works as a security guard in the US told a blog.

“I relocated because I just couldn’t 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,  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 couldn’t pay my bills, I just couldn’t 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 the country and seek a greener pasture and as God would have it, the plans worked out.”