YOU‘RE JOKING, KANAYO, MIKE OKRI SLAM FG OVER BAN ON SMOKING, MONEY RITUALS IN MOVIES
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By Ajape Sefiu A.
Veteran Nollywood actor, Kanayo O. Kanayo, alongside music icon Mike Okri, has frowned at the Federal Government’s recent approval of the prohibition of smoking and glamorizing of money rituals and killings in Nigerian films, skits and music videos, describing such development as ‘a joke.’
On Wednesday, the government, through the Executive Director/CEO of the National Film and Video Censors Board, NFVCB, Dr. Shaibu Husseini, approved the “Prohibition of Money Ritual, Ritual Killing, Tobacco, Tobacco Product, Nicotine Product Promotion, glamorization, display in movies, musical videos and skits” in pursuance to Section 65 of the NFVCB Act 2004.
Husseini made this known, while speaking at a National Stakeholders Engagement on Smoke-Free Nollywood in partnership with Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa, CAPPA, held in Enugu.
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Reacting to the development, veteran musician, Mike Okri described the action of the federal government as a joke, adding, “it’s a way to silence the movie industry.”
“Whoever is behind this from the FG is joking. It’s a way to silence the movie industry. They should focus on the real challenges facing the country,” Okri snapped.
Likewise, popular actor Kanayo O. Kanayo, who is mostly known for playing money ritual roles in movies, described the move, as ‘a sensible nonsense’.
He added that the Honourable Minister of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy, Barrister Hannatu Musa Musawa, has no job approving a move to gag the film makers. .
Meanwhile, the NFVCB boss stated that the censors board has continued to place the highest premium on the progress of the film industry by ensuring that films, video works, musical videos and skits are free of depiction and glamorization of harmful substances like smoking of tobacco, violence, criminal acts, immoral acts, ritual killing and money ritual.
According to him, “Today, we are facing an industry emergency requiring bold and ambitious actions from all of us as parents, guardians and stakeholders.”
He said that after a series of engagements, the NFVCB, in collaboration with the CAPPA, decided to do subsidiary regulations to cater for smoking in movies since this aspect was not expressly spelled out in the existing law.
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