The Pretty Okafor-led PMAN interim
executives recently unveiled the much talked about biometric cards for
musicians in Lagos at an event which also marked the first 100 days in office
for Okafor.
According to Okafor, “the
scheme is informed by the need to close the yawning gap between creativity and
development in Nigeria-music as a development challenge. Said to be emerging,
Nigeria’s music industry now generates billions of Naira on an annual basis
that end up predominantly in the coffers of foreign and Nigerian pirates. Other
sums of similar size belonging to Nigerian musicians lie trapped in the vaults
of several foreign (legitimate) establishments due to gross policy and
institutional inadequacies on the side of our nation. There is certainly no
pride in knowing that a country as big and as endowed as Nigeria has no
standard or world-class record label. It is disheartening to see talented
Nigerian musicians groveling before gangs of heinous and artistically clueless
pirates, eating off their palms in absolute desperation and pathetic
helplessness like congenital beggars”.
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