I Am Ashamed To Be A Nigerian – P-square Says

Peter Psquare Okoye, one of the twins, Hip Hop stars has reacted to the plan of Federal Government to restrict Nigerian entertainers from shooting videos and music outside Nigeria.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed earlier revealed this at an event on June 15, 2017 saying:

“This government has agreed that henceforth, whatever we consume in Nigeria in terms of music
and films, must be made in Nigeria. We cannot continue to go to South Africa or any other country to produce our films and then send them back to be consumed in Nigeria.

The Broadcasting Code and the Advertising Code are very clear on this. For you to classify a product as a Nigerian product, it must have a certain percentage of Nigerian content”.

“When they get there, they will patronise the economy of that country and then bring the products back to Nigeria for us to consume.

It is like somebody going to China or Japan to make a product that looks like palm wine and bring it back home to label it Nigerian palm wine. As long as we are not able to implement our own code to ensure local production of Nigerian music and movies, our young talents will not get jobs.

It is Nigerians that pay for the consumption of these products and therefore they must be allowed and encouraged to participate in their production. I am going to meet with the relevant stakeholders over this, to see that whatever amendment that is needed to be made to our Broadcasting Code in this regard, is done
urgently.”

In series of tweets, Peter Okoye expressed displeasure to the FG’s move and even threatens to change nationality.

He blasted the government saying the Nigerian entertainers have been the ones covering the disappointment of the Government.

Read his tweets below: