Nollywood filmmaker Imoh Umoren has berated the National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) over its recent plan to enforce a law banning smoking in movies.
Recall that the NFVCB has commenced engagement with practitioners and stakeholders in the movie and entertainment industry to enforce the law banning smoking in movies.
This was revealed in a statement issued on Saturday by the Executive Director, NFVCB, Adedayo Thomas while presenting a communique at the end of the entertainment industry stakeholders’ roundtable in Lagos.
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Thomas said, “Stakeholders observed that smoking in movies and the entertainment sector is a pathway to young people embracing smoking.
“The tobacco industry uses sophisticated marketing mix to promote smoking on set and in the entertainment sector.
In his reaction to the development, Umoren accused the NFVCB of trying to regulate an industry which was started and sustained without government’s help.
He stated that the NFVCB should be creating an enabling environment and giving tax incentives to Nollywood.
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