Rita Edochie Blows Hot Over Rumoured Death of Colleague Osita Iheme, Shares Experience: “Madness”

• Veteran actress Rita Edochie called out social media bloggers over the rumoured death of colleague Osita Iheme, aka Paw Paw
• The energetic star revealed the number of times she had come across such fake disheartening news online 
• Not stopping there, Rita recounted when she fell victim to such following a movie role she played as a corpse

Veteran actress Rita Edochie has responded to the death rumours about her colleague, Osita Iheme, also known as Pawpaw.

In a lengthy post on her Instagram page, she revealed that she had read death news about the actor twice, and strangely, many netizens accepted the fake news and mourned him in the comments area.

Rita remarked that the continual death rumours about her colleagues are out of hand, citing how such news was manufactured about her, with the use of a photo of her on a movie set to back it up. 

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The sister-in-law of veteran Pete Edochie remarked that social media has done more harm than good to society despite being a constant source of enrichment for most youths.

“If ONE BLOGGER AND ONE HUNGRY SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT CREATOR haveN’T BEEN MERCILESSLY DEALT WITH, THE REST WON’T LEARN.

“THIS RUMOR HAS COME UP BEFORE, A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO, IT CAME UP FOR THE SECOND TIME, PICTURES OF MY GREAT SON AND VETERAN COLLEAGUE OSITA IHEME, POPULARLY KNOWN AS PAW_ PAW, TRENDED EVERYWHERE ON SOCIAL MEDIA WITH CAPTIONS THAT THEY WERE DEAD. CRÃZY NETIZENS BELIEVED THE FAKE GIST AND BEGAN COMMENTING RIP ON THEMSELVES,” she said in part.

See her post below:

Netizens react to Rita Edochie’s outburst 

Legit.ng compiled the reactions below:

princessnikeomisore:

"Once I see those post with that Ghana sorrowful music I nor dey even bother comment cos I know say na lie 😂😂😂 especially on TikTok and Facebook."

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stilletic_shoes:

"Madam pls stop typing in block/capital letters it means u are shouting."

king_don_chizzy:

"That’s Facebook people mama 😂 stop going to Facebook."

nellykay243:

"It's no longer funny! There should be a regulatory body that fight for this."

cc__gilbert:

"We will not loose any of our legends again in Jesus name 👏👏 affliction will never arise again.. e no go better for people carrying that rumors."

stilletic_shoes:

"Madam pls stop typing in block/capital letters it means u are shouting."

udochukwu_h:

"Many of this fake news are Facebook bloggers posting rubbish, try and use one of them as an example and the rest will learn how to mind their business."

May Edochie celebrates Rita Edochie

Meanwhile, May Edochie was happy that Nollywood actress Rita Edochie marked her birthday, and she celebrated with her.

The mother of three posted lovely pictures as she prayed for the actress, saying she had too much action.

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She made an AI-generated image look so beautiful and called Rita sweet names on her special day.

Proofreading by Nkem Ikeke, journalist and copy editor at Legit.ng.

Source: Legit.ng