Veteran actor Kanayo O. Kanayo and music icon Mike Okri have criticized 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 it as “a joke” and “sensible nonsense.”
The government, through the National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB), approved the “Prohibition of Money Ritual, Ritual Killing, Tobacco, Tobacco Product, Nicotine Product Promotion, glamorization, display in movies, musical videos and skits” in pursuant to Section 65 of the NFVCB Act 2004.
Mike Okri reacted, “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.”
Kanayo O. Kanayo described the move as “sensible nonsense,” adding that the Honourable Minister of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy, Barrister Hannatu Musa Musawa, has no job for approving a move to gag filmmakers.
NFVCB boss, Dr. Shaibu Husseini, 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.
Husseini said, “Today, we are facing an industry emergency requiring bold and ambitious actions from all of us as parents, guardians, and stakeholders.”
What a country so smoking and rituals in movies now is our problem now for a nation that’s facing economy crisis
May be they feel it’s the country’s problem but it’s not
I heard this news somdays ago but it’s just movie nah nothing serious.
I am with kanayo
They should face the real issue and stop focusing on what not
They wan spoil show for kanayo, that has usually been his main role in a movie…All this doesn’t matter jare.
This country sef,our government leave the important matters and focus on less relevant ones
What concerns government with this side self,they never make Nigeria a better place and they are putting eyes in what is irrelivant.
I’m telling you that is the movie and if they should go an art