The outspoken Minister of Information and Culture, has
explained to Nigerians how dressing masquerades could
create a thousand jobs per week for Nigerian men.


Speaking at the sectoral debate of the federal house of representative in Abuja on Tuesday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said dressing masquerades could create a thousand jobs per week for Nigerian men, adding that most states in Nigeria have one
festival or the other.


"Most states today have more than one festival a
year, but the packaging and lack of capacity has not
enabled them to make the most out of these festivals.


"There’s a particular masquerade in the south east, it
takes 100 people to dress him, another 100 people to
UnCloth him.


"If this masquerade is well-packaged, it can provide
employment in one week for more than 1000 young
men. These are some of the untapped potentials," he
said.


The outspoken minister explained that Nigeria has
the oldest forest in the world in terms of biodiversity
for tourists to visit, but tourists are discouraged by
bribing and insecurity in the country.


"I worked in the airport for 10 years, and I know that
if you want your passport stamped as a foreigner,
you slip $100 into your passport. No tourist would
come back to a country where he has to bribe
immigration to enter.


"No tourist would come to a country where, when he
leaves immigration, he enters a ‘one-chance’ taxi or
‘one-chance’ bus. It’s a holistic problem and these are
all contained in the national tourism master plan,
which I would make available to the house.


"We must make a difference between tourist sites and
tourist attractions; what we have in Nigeria are tourist
sites. They are not tourist attractions.


"You need infrastructure to convert a tourist site to a
tourist attraction. If you don’t have infrastructure, it
would always remain a tourist site.


"In Cross Rivers reserve park, Nigeria has the oldest
forest in the whole world. It is the oldest in terms of
biodiversity, and we have this very rare, white-mane
gorilla in that area, but because my people in Cross
River have decided to turn them to bush meat, they
have now escaped," he concluded.

Lololol. Lai needs help.