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Friday 21 March 2014

"Government should stop giving AGN money" - Mr Ibu cries out

Mr Ibu is one man that is seriously unhappy with the visit of the AGN to the Presidency recently. Ibu whose real names are John okafor expressed his utter displeasure and stated that the visit was not necessary.
The government should stop giving Actors’ Guild cash, because we don’t know how to handle it. Some people will go to the office, process the money and squander it and we (actors) never benefit from such goodwill. 
“If they (government) can give us a structure or land, we (actors) can go ahead and secure funds from investors to build five-star hotels and other facilities on it, because it will be a tourist haven. We can bring the Nigerian Censor’s board into the same arena. 
“How can we be paying N50,000 to have one movie censored and then generate N5m from over 100 movies produced in a month and yet there aren’t any structures in place for Nollywood? “With such amount of money, government should be able to cater for us. If this is done, the industry will make a giant stride.”
Ibu also spoke on another issue silently killing the Nigerian movie industry,Something he described as an ‘ugly trend’. 
Homosexuality is very rampant in our industry and it is one thing that aggravates my anger many at times.