Following last Saturday's comment from the minister of information and culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed , where he said movies and musical videos that are consumed in Nigeria, shouldn't be shot abroad.
Notable names like Emeka ike, Dele Oduele and Saidi Balogun have responded to his comments.


Emeka Ike , Actor Guild of Nigeria;
The government has not made any structural arrangement for us. They gave us $3bn grant and we said that we should see how we can use it to build a film village, I said that we should use the money to have a structure that we can all have an office space but they shared the money among individuals. If you release funds to AGN, we would talk about structures because no one can spend such funds without question being asked but when you give the money to an individual, he would do what he wants with the finds. We want to beg the government to look at issues as a patriotic Nigerian so that we can move forward as an industry. They should recognise the entertainment institutions in the industry, encourage and build them. The ideas that PMAN and AGN submitted to the Minister of Information on the creative industry was not implemented. Pretty Okafor of PMAN went to him and gave him a template on how to run the creative industry where biometrics identity cards can pay every musician anywhere you are aired but he abandoned it.

Dele Odule, President Theater Arts and Motion Picture Producer’s Association of Nigeria;


Film is make-believe; in fact that is the essence. If we have a scene that needs to be shot abroad, how do you expect us to do it? Are you saying that all those shots would be taken in Nigeria? If you want to convince people and you have the means to travel abroad to do so, why shouldn’t you? If at all we have to do everything here, do we have a film village where a movie set could be constructed, a place we can achieve our desired goal? Do we have a conducive environment to shoot a proper movie? If we want to shoot a scene about a foreign land and we don’t have a film village where a similar set could be constructed, how do we do it? If you have the means, all you need is to travel out of the country and achieve that or else it would not be convincing enough. If we have a conducive environment where a proper movie production can be done in this country, I see no reason why we have to go abroad to shoot movies. They have to create an environment that is conducive for producers to achieve everything that they want to achieve with their movie production.

We have heard your voice. But the problem i have with lai mohammed is that he is never serious for once. May be he drank burukutu and was thinking he is on beer parlour when he make that comment.

Wetin unlimited LA pix dey do there?