Govt has not Forgetting you, Minister tells artists

LAGOS—The Minister of information and culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has reassured the Artists’ Village neighborhood on the countrywide Theatre, Lagos, that the federal government has no longer abandoned them. Lai Mohammed The Minister, who mentioned this in Lagos at a meeting with the representatives of the Artists’ Village, restated the federal government’s commitment to compensate those whose studios and artefacts have been destroyed during the demolition of illegal buildings and shanties at the national Theatre, Lagos, in January this year. “i've simply come here to can help you be aware of that we now have not abandoned you. We promised we're going to compensate you however you also recognize that the wheel of presidency grinds slowly. ‘’I believe it’s sufficient to convince you that we imply well. So it’s not right to say that the government has abandoned the Artists’ Village as I learn within the newspapers lately,” he mentioned. Alhaji Mohammed appealed to the artists to reciprocate government’s gesture and goodwill with the aid of constructively enticing it (government) as a substitute of disagreement, with the intention to now not aid their intent in anyway. “it seems that a few of us have no longer switched our mode from analogue to digital. We still believe in the politics of war of words rather than politics of engagement. We still feel in us in opposition to them. I came to this place of job with out a baggage in any respect; I don't have any prejudice or bias. I came to this place of job with the single-mindedness of advancing tradition, tourism and humanities,” he stated. The Minister confused the need for synergy between the ministry and the Artists in order to improve the ingenious sector, saying anything lower than on the way to be hazardous to the enterprise. He described the Artists’ Village as a vital factor of the leisure industry, saying his ministry has signed Memoranda of figuring out with quite a lot of local and global companies for potential constructing and scholarship for the artists. “The Artists Village is there to stay. I have said it loud and clear. I've not taken any step to the opposite. Whatever i have accomplished, far and wide i have gone, is to advertise the rationale of the cultural and creativity enterprise,” he stated. Meanwhile, Alhaji Mohammed added that the ministry has commenced the procedure of activating the Presidential Council on Tourism (PCT) as a part of efforts to rapid-monitor the development of tourism in Nigeria. He stated a guidance Committee assembly, as a way to draft the agenda for the inaugural session of the PCT, will hold on Sept. Sixth 2016.