We have no plan to stifle Nollywood – Lai Mohammed

Federal Government has distanced itself from the controversy trailing the Motion Pictures Council of Nigeria, saying that it has no hidden agenda to stifle the industry. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made the confession on Monday, when he received the report of the Review Committee of the Motion Picture Council of Nigeria (MOPICON), in Abuja.

The Minister, who was reacting to the debate that ensued among the stakeholders in the aftermath of the inauguration of the Review Committee, said it was wrong for some people to argued that the government has no business in helping Nollywood to set up a self-regulatory structure.

Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed and Artistic Director of the National Troupe Akin Adejuwon in a group photograph with members of the National Troupe during the Command Performance of “Death and the King’s Horseman” in Lagos on Saturday to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the award of Nobel Prize to Prof. Wole Soyinka . vanguard