Issakaba is a 2001 movie directed by Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen and produced by the late Chukwuka Emelionwu and Moses Nnam, starring Sam Dede, Ejike Asiegbu, Chiwetalu Agu, Columbus Irisoanga, John Okafor and Larry West, among many others. It is a four-part movie centred on a group of men who call themselves the Issakaba Boys. They serve as the long arm of the law, coming down heavily on all evil doers.
Issakaba was inspired by the story of the ‘Bakassi’ boys, who served judgement to robbers, kidnappers and anybody that dished out terror on the citizenry. The Issakaba Boys, like the Bakassi Boys went unchecked with the mutilations and burning – jungle justice – being meted out to their victims for a long time because the citizens had had too much of their goods and property carted away by hoodlums, robbers, kidnappers, name them.
The movie is regarded as the first action film in Nollywood, although action films like Amadas and Hostages had been released before Issakaba. The movie is the one known to have started off the train of crime movies in Nollywood.
Given the opportunity to air your opinion on remaking the film, would you agree to this or would you subscribe to the memory of the film staying just the way it is?
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