-Adenike Akindude
Lai Mohammed says FG’s Plan To Ban Music Production Abroad is to tackle exploitation
Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture of Nigeria have opened up on the reason behind the decision of the Federal Government’s plan to stop production of movies and music videos abroad. He said the decision came in order to tackle exploitation.
In a chat with Premium Times on Sunday, he said the move of the Federal Government was to tackle the exploitation of perceived loopholes in the Nigerian Broadcasting Code, NBC.
The Minister said: “All we are saying is that we are going to amend the code in a manner that it will not be possible for you to exploit any loophole there to go and shoot outside Nigeria film, music or programs that are meant to be consumed in Nigeria,”
“It is not directed at any particular incident, every country should respect the local industry of other countries.”
“ For example, in Ghana, they introduced a law today that demands visiting actors to pay a thousand dollars to the government coffers while visiting directors and producers pay 5,000 dollars.”
“We must create an enabling environment and also generate revenue from our creative industry. The argument is simple, when you go to shoot a film offshore, you use the work force of that country to develop the capacity of that country and you improve the economy of that country and that is what we are trying to do here.”
Follow us on Facebook – Dailyfamily.ng, Twitter – @DailyfamilyNG and instagram @dailyfamilyng for more updates
