Ruggedman Writes An Open Letter To The FG Over Plan To Stop Movies & Music Videos Shoots Abroad

The wagons are circling and make no mistake, Nigerian celebrities are not with Federal Government on this Dracula plan to stop local movies and music production abroad. Charley boy said his, the Okoye's has said theirs and now Ruggedy Baba wants to advice FG.

Rapper, Ruggedman writes an open letter to the government after Lai Mohammed announced plans of the Federal Government to impose a ban on shooting music videos and local movies outside Nigeria and their reasons for coming up with such decision.

The rapper chose a different part. Instead of slamming the federal government over their plans like out celebrities has done, Ruggedman has chosen to highlight reasons why the move is not only wrong but totally out of place.

His letter reads as follow...

Sir,

You can not privatise what you do not own or have control over.

Meet with real Nigerian entertainment stake holders and not people who have milked our entertainers with their platforms. Meet with the real stakeholders and discuss the way forward. Discuss how the Federal government can get involved with the Nigerian creative industry the right way.

It is wrong to try to bully your way into the Nigerian entertainment industry you did nothing to help build.

It is absurd to say you will ban entertainers from shooting music videos or movies abroad. Your reason being that we go there to enrich their economy with Nigerian’s money.

Not while government officials have their children schooling abroad.

Not while government officials all go abroad for medical treatment and vacations .

Not while government officials continue to import bullet proof cars that are not made in Nigeria.

All these amount to billions of Nigeria’s money being spent abroad.

IF YOU WANT ENTERTAINERS TO STOP GOING ABROAD TO SHOOT MUSIC VIDEOS AND MOVIES, THEN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS SHOULD STOP GOING ABROAD FOR HOSPITALS,VACATIONS AND SCHOOLS.

WE CAN USE ALL THOSE BILLIONS SPENT IN FUNDING FOREIGN ECONOMIES TO EQUIP OUR SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS AND OTHER PARASTATALS.

They are our leaders and so have to lead by example

Trying to ban private owned businesses (entertainers) from doing part of their business abroad will go against the democracy your party preaches.

THINGS YOU NEED TO DO:

1. First of all, shelve the talk of banning entertainers working abroad. It is not what the creative industry needs from the government and it is a terrible look for you. Nobody likes a bully.

2. NO STRUCTURE MEANS NO ALTERNATIVE:

Since we do not have a proper structure yet, put a hold on your $1m venture capital for the creative industry.

You say the money is seed money for young and talented Nigerians to set up businesses in the industry. How do you know the young and talented ones if you do not work with the registered Music and Movie bodies?

You will only be enriching a few and wasting money our country needs.

So you need to help the existing Music and Movie unions set up a proper structure that can be monitored before you talk about giving money out.

Money is needed, but a structure is needed more urgently.

3. PMAN AND AGN VISITED YOU

I for one know that The President of the Performing Musicians Employers Association of Nigeria (PMAN ) Mr Pretty Okafor and the President of the Actors Guild Of Nigeria ( AGN ) Mr Emeka Ike along with a few executives met with you in Abuja and discussed a beautiful plan to put a proper structure in place for Nigeria’s creative industry.

One of the plans that was discussed with you was a conference tagged “Creative Industry Summit” and I see you were involved in a similar event recently tagged “Creative Industry Financing conference”.

We are surprised that nobody from the movie or music industry was present to speak at a conference for the ‘’CREATIVE INDUSTRY’’.

Sir, the stakeholders who spoke ath the just concluded Creative Industry Financing conference are not Nigerian veteran musicians or Nigerian record label owners. Neither are they from the Nigerian movie industry.

4. DISCUSS WITH ENTERTAINMENT STAKEHOLDERS 1ST, BEFORE BUSINESS STAKEHOLDERS.

We did not see the likes of Kenny Ogungbe “Kennis Music” , Tade Ogidan, Obi Asika “Storm Records”, Tunde Kilani, or Eldee “Trybe Records”.

These are some of the people who suffered and played great parts in building our Nigerian music and movie industry.

But the men at the Creative Industry Financing conferenceare you were part of are individuals who schooled “abroad” and own platforms that have made and are still making money using Nigerian entertainment.

But most of the artists whose works they deal in do not have half the money these men have made with our interlectual properties.

Sir, these intelligent businessmen can be in an advisory board to help build a structure to enrich both the owners of the intellectual properties and the Nigerian economy.

4. Revisit the plans the new PMAN president Pretty Okafor discussed with you when he and some executives met with you in Abuja some months back. Plans which involve setting up a proper structure to encode and barcode all intellectual materials by Nigerians.

WE NEED POLICIES TO

5. GET RADIO AND TV STATIONS TO PAY ARTISTS ROYALTY:

For years, Nigerian radio and television stations have amassed billions of Nigeria from using Nigerian artists hard work without paying the artists. This is where you can come in and set up a policy that will make sure they start paying artists whose work they use.

They already make a lot of money from adverts placed by companies.

Sir, this move will be a ground breaking one in the Nigerian entertainment industry and it will be to your credit.

6. STOP TELECOM COMPANIES TAKING 70% OF ARTISTS MONEY:

Sit quietly with REAL Nigerian entertainment stakeholders and discuss the way forward. Not with individuals who have milked entertainers through their platforms for their personal gains. Especially the TELCOS.

TELCOS sell our songs/ringtones and take 70% while the owner of the work gets to share 30% with a content provider. IF YOU ARE TO BAN ANYBODY, IT IS THE TELCOS WHO DO THIS.

7. CURB PIRACY:

Follow the guidelines to curb piracy that the PMAN President Pretty Okafor introduced to you. Which included, setting up a task force empowered to deal with people found dealing in pirated entertainment materials.

PMAN is the recognised parent body for Nigerian Music, just as The AGN is to the Nigerian movie industry.

Both Presidents are veterans in their fields and are also businessmen. So sir, they undertand both worlds.

I am an entertainer and I know a lot of what we lack and what we need. Placing a ban on Nigerian entertainers going abroad to shoot music videos and movies is the last thing we need from our government.

Helping our creative industry to build a much needed structure, thereby creating a conducive environment for both local and foreign investors to do business is what is needed.

Lets work together to further grow and capitalize on a Nigerian creative industry that has managed to boom without any government policy..

Let the government make policies that will protect and expand our creative industry to benefit the entertainers and the Nigerian economy.

But it can not be achieved by brute force.

Or sir, you do not want them to come to Nigeria to shoot parts of Furious 9?

Sincerely yours

Ruggedman

CHAIRMAN MEDIA PMAN
{PERFORMING MUSICIANS EMPLOYERS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA}

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Rugged was good back then




RIP rap music


u were murdered in cold blood by vic-O and Lil kesh

I read the first paragraph then I saw.."1"

I was like then I scrolled down almost five swipes.
and when I saw it was up to 7,
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long but He has a Point.

He made so much sense.
The FG cannot come and stop music production abroad. It doesn't even have the jurisdiction.
Invest in it to grow the economy and watch how foreigners will troop in numbers to shoot videos here.

Ruggedman will drop an hot track soon

this guy take style get sense

APC

Me sef tire for that plan by the FG.

FG should look for a better job jor.

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Epic

I think by now the fg should have discovered their folly in that statement made ,there is no need to continue masturbating in that foolishness .

http://www.skyevibes.com/showthread.php?tid=170 - waja also did

FAYOSE,AN EXPONENT OR MAFIOSO TO THE NIGERIA CAUSE
A CALL TO NIGERIA YOUTHS

©Tope Omogoroye

It is no longer news that the supposed man of the people,gallant and unrelenting critic and caviler of the current government has declared his willingness to contest for the 2019 presidential election,and its clearly indubitable that he has been receiving support and words of encouragement from the south-central and south-eastern part of the country.
Mr fayose first launched his presidential campaign on Facebook, and if you will agree with me Facebook is where hypocrisy, falseness, double standards meets up for morning coffee,am writing this as an avenue for me to express my view on his ambition and am clearly acting in the corridors of the law ,The 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) under section 39(1) provides for freedom of expression and thoughts,if allowed to proceed i will like to iron out some facts about the public figure.
Charisma is said to be an efficient munition in winning peoples love and in making them do one's bidding, and its a weapon well welded by Mr fayose .He continues to be a champion in the sight of the masses,inspite of his public display of hooliganism,and evidences pointing out that is a desperado,a deuce among others��‍♂��‍♂��‍♂.
Its also indisputable with evidences provided that he is known for blackmailing, brutalising, and verbally assaulting all those he considers his political opponent at any available time..
He is always the first to criticize the efforts of the present government at righting the wrong his party as done to this country, and lets also not that out of the money that was supposed to be used in securing Nigerians and mostly finance the ongoing combat against boko haram at the north, 4.7billion naira was traced to his account,and also the army general who was dismissed by accepting a offer made by mr fayose to rig elections in exchange for promotion.
I can say confidently that he is a Philistine who knows nothing about state building not to talk of nation building, all he does is to share money and bags of rice branded with his name on them on the streets of ekiti,riding okada for inspection of ongoing projects, patronizing food vendors at the road side,visiting public pepper soup joint at a time he should be investing his idleness to the development of his state.
Are these the reasons the youths and masses praises him?,he gives out money without providing job opportunities,state money which should be used in driving development are used to purchase bags of rice with his name branded on them.
Can this man mean well for his state and country as a whole,lets not forget that last year, he gave out guns to hunters and famers asking them to use it at any fulani man seen grazing in ekiti state(he didnt arm the police which its there constitutional duty and responsibility) and by so doing creating more problems that solving them and openly promoting anarchism and indirectly making his people have no regard for the rule of law.
One more amazing skill of his,is his ability to distract by all his arts of ingenious sophistry,if not so i dont know how he managed to get the forgiveness,and love of the youths in his state despite his public displays of wishing doom for both the state and the country,in 2006 after his impeachment as a state governor Mr Fayose was accused to have stolen up to $81 million from the coffers of Ekiti state during his tenure as governor. He was accused of political violence, corrupt elections, fraud, bribery, assasination and more,and this lead to the denial of his family visa by the U.S government and labelling him a corrupt personage Currently,as also alleged by the APC he is yet to pay the salary of ekiti sate workers,and has diverted state funds for the purpose of funding his political ambitions
It is said that birds of same feather flocks togther,this can be (✍�tope omogoroye)proven true in the relationship of fayose with his counterpart mr wike of rivers state who is a well known deuce and very antidemocratic in actions.
I think its a time nigerians start seeing this man for what hes truly is,we should all start discarding his public words in the waste bin,and i trust Nigeria youths not to vote for someone who will take us back to the era of the dark age,at this point i will like to rest my pen.

©tope Omogoroye

✍� Omogoroye Tope


The above names are all fictions,and if we have anyone bearing them,it is nothing but pure coincidence, they should kindly pls overlook it.



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Look at the way all of them are reacting to it like nuclear reaction... if only they could react like this to the killings by boko haram and fulani herdsmen

So a trip to Jamaica or 30 days in Atlanta or 10 days in Suncity should have been shot in Nigeria?
Lai needs to apologize for such an unguarded statement.

Nice!
At least some of our Artistes can speak good English.

Someone cannot lie in peace again!?

This forgotten artiste is seeking for recognition

Lemme read the letter first

Will the liar hear word .. Some one should slap lie Mohammad for me

Ruggedman has said it all!

So this guy still dey exist

Well done rugged

Ruggedy is 100% on point..

Message Excellent

Construction Excellent

Delivery Excellent

Ruggedy sai so

martineverest:
This forgotten artiste is seeking for recognition

did u read d content? Now u Don make fp. Now u can go back and read slowly

APC Govt of Propaganda
Led by Propagandist
Followed by Proper fools

Leonbonapart:
Look at the way all of them are reacting to it like nuclear reaction... if only they could react like this to the killings by boko haram and fulani herdsmen

Guy, na wetin dey pinch person, person go talk about.

Wetin concern Actors and Musicians with Fulani and Boko boys?

That reaction should be left to Soldiers, Police and Public policy makers from the affected regions.

U say Nigeria na giant of which Africa? Make una de there the do giant of Africa while ingiant country are developing




[Qquote author=otijah post=58612378]See this expired artist wey never travel outside before dey bring him own opinion SMH.
Meanwhile I stand with Lai in this one, how many foreign artist don't ever come 9ja shoot video despite we are the giant of Africa. [/quote]

The intentions of the idea is understood and is beneficial, but as usual our rulers lack both management and leadership skills....all they know is politics and politicking....Most of them still have this decree 101 mentality......

Its simple, the minister should know that all he needed to do was engage our entertainers in a forum for discussion on his ideas.....Pitch them a good proposal with benefits.....He who plays the pipe dictates the tune....all he had to say was he will foot the bill for the video production and even promotion/distribution and state that the conditions for such support would be that they produce all videos in Nigeria...

This would have made more sense and gone down well with the entertainers.....but in an industry were you have provided no support/help, you now want to dictate the tune....you must be joking.


As for the entertainers, they need not make too much noise, they should come together, get a constitution lawyer and and drag the minister and his ministry to court and have the nonsense squashed.


Also suppose our entertainers where functionally involved in politics, by now then could have lobbied some senators to bring the minister to order....this is the norm in developed countries.