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Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, says the increased attention and support being given to the creative industry by the Buhari administration is yielding results.
According to Segun Adeyemi, Mohammed’s media aide, the minister said this while speaking at the premiere of the movie ‘Wedding Party 2’ in Lagos on Sunday.
Adeyemi said the minister listed the pioneer status granted to the industry, the stepped-up anti-piracy campaign and the decision to seek stimulus capital for the industry from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as some of the positive results.
He said Mohammed recalled that shortly after the Creative Industry Financing Conference in Lagos earlier in the year, he led a delegation of the film industry stakeholders to the inspector-general of police, which resulted in the formation of anti-piracy units in all the 36 states of the federation.
“The subsequent extensive piracy raids have now resulted in the confiscation of pirated films worth hundreds of millions of naira. In fact, criminal prosecutions of culprits have now started,” the minister was quoted to have said.
