Ebola victim, Stella Adadevoh’s family battles Bola Austen Peters over unauthorized movie production

You could be forgiven for thinking the movie, ’93 Days,’ is contagious. The good idea was probably ill-fated the moment Bola Austen Peters muted it in the confines of her think-pad. But the maverick movie maker did not know that hence she embarked on the production of the movie which was meant to celebrate the life and heroism of late Ebola victim, Dr. Stella Ameyo Adadevoh, in fighting and containing the virus.

Now that production work has been completed on the flick, the family of the late Ebola victim, Dr. Adadevoh, has openly distanced themselves from the yet-to-be-released movie. Although the movie is allegedly dedicated to Ebola Virus’ hero’ Dr Stella Ameyo by the producers, the late doctor’s family are angry with Austen Peters, the producer. Apart from the fact that the producers are using the name of the late doctor for their pecuniary gain, it skirts moral boundaries not to inform the family before the production of the movie, argued the Adadevohs.

The family of the deceased disclosed that they did not give their consent for the production of the movie on Ebola virus titled “93 Day”.

Dr Ameyo was the first doctor to attend to the Ebola patient from Liberia, Patrick Sawyer. Dr Stella Adadevoh, died on August 19, 2014, after contacting the virus in an attempt to keep infected patient, Patrick Sawyer, confined to the First Consultants Hospital in Lagos where she worked.

She was praised by Nigerians as the woman whose efforts aided the speedy containment of Ebola in the country. The Cardoso and Adadevoh families revealed their discontenttowards the movie production in a letter dated January 3, 2016, they admitted that they only got to know about the movie after the script had already been written and completed and further revealed that the specific facts in the movie are not well represented.

However, the family has threatened to hold the filmmakers legally accountable for “any falsehoods and innuendos in the movie with regards to Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh and her family.”