MOPICON Bill: As you read this, the MOPICON review committee, set up by Minister for Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, are knocking heads together in a hotel conference room somewhere, trying to bring to life a document that will ultimately begin the final descent of the Nigerian film industry, popularly known as Nollywood.
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Somewhere at the back of their minds, the members of this committee have convinced themselves that they are doing God’s work by insisting that there is need to regulate the movie industry as, in their opinion and conclusion, too many ‘untrained nobodies’ had found their way into the industry they created and therefore there is a need to kick them out so the industry may be salvaged from the filthy hands of these usurpers.
It will, of course, not occur to members of this committee that not ONE of them is responsible for any of the great films that define Nollywood; that many of them are stakeholders simply because they have hung around filmmaking for decades or contributed what is often not more than forgettable inconveniences.
So here is the good news: ultimately, the MOPICON Bill, in any shape or form, will fail.
Here’s why:
- Alhaji Lai Mohammed is not stupid:
The Buhari administration is daily cutting the picture of a draconian government, with media trials of alleged corrupt past government officials and all. But, whatever else he is, Alhaji Lai Mohammed is not stupid. At some point on this unfortunate attempt to resuscitate an idea dead on arrival like MOPICON, realisation will hit Alhaji Lai Mohammed and he’ll see the light and know that this MOPICON will be one of the greatest undoing of this government and the APC. Alhaji Lai Mohammed is reputed to be a liberator, not one to create hindrances to an industry that was built on free market ideals. We at TNS have been reliably informed by those who should know that the people that approached the minister and pleaded with him to bring back MOPICON lied to him about the status of the industry and this review process has revealed some truths to him and his people and now it is being whispered to him to drop this MOPICON nuisance.
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