Emeka Enyiocha leaves movie industry for hospitality business

He once held sway in the Nigerian movie industry in the late 90s but a few years after, Emeka Enyoicha ended the profession that brought his fame and fortune. Seven years after, he seems to be doing quite well for himself; got married and had kids.           
“When these two things happened, I had more responsibilities to deal with. I had to be closer to my family and kids so that they would not call me uncle when they see me. Marriage and family slowed me down. It definitely slows someone down except you do not want to take care of your family. I tried to combine marriage with work because I was doing my own production.

“While I was away from the industry, I was into partnership with a close friend of mine. We did productions together. We did ‘The Patriot,’ which is a fight against fake drugs and adulterated products. We did ‘School,’ a movie about rich kids causing trouble in the school and we did ‘Champions of Our Time,’ in partnership with the Lagos State government. It is about the physically challenged and letting them to know that their status does not amount to a mental disability and we won so many awards with this film,” he said.

Now he has moved on and has his eyes on the hospitality business. He started out by setting up a bar and selling beer.         
“I learnt a lot from being a beer seller. I was trying to know the other side of life which actually taught me a lot of lessons. I saw a lot and it taught me to be humble. It taught me how to be humble to the lowest. It also taught me how to save money, respect and appreciate money. As an actor, when you get money, it is in the booth of your car and you don’t have time to do anything, so money does everything for you. You go from one location to another and at the end of the day, you would find out that there is nothing left.

“However, I am no longer running the bar business. I stopped because I want to go into the hospitality business on a large scale.”

Punch