Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has received the report of the Implementation Committee for Post-COVID-19 Initiatives Committee on the Creative Industry, with a pledge to implement the recommendations of the committee.
Receiving the report in his office, the Minister assured
that the Government will not disappoint the stakeholders in the Creative Industry.
“I can assure you that we will study the report and commence its implementation in earnest,” he said.
Mohammed commended the Committee for its wide consultation with a broad spectrum of stakeholders in the Creative Industry in order to
secure their buy-in and ensure inclusiveness.
He commended members of the committee for their painstaking work that
culminated in the report.
In his remarks, the Chairman of the Committee and the Director General
of the National Council for Arts and Culture, Otunba Segun Runsewe,
said the Implementation Committee set up 14 clusters to collate the
views of all the players in the Creative Industry, with a view to
drafting immediate, medium and long time implementation plan for the
turnaround of the Creative Sector, which was badly hit by the COVID-19
pandemic.
Runsewe, who thanked the Minister for his foresight in setting
up the committee, said this is the first time any government will
engage the entire spectrum of the Creative Industry in order to chart
a course for the development of the industry.
The Minister inaugurated the Committee on August 18th, 2020, to design
an implementation plan on immediate and short-term relief for the
Creative Industry, in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic (Short Term);
design a Policy Framework for Tax Relief for the various sectors in
the Creative Industry, if it is identified as one of the measures
aimed at achieving immediate and short-term relief for the Industry,
and to work out a detailed implementation plan for a long-term
intervention for the overall development of the Creative industry in
Nigeria (long term).
Other members of the Implementation Committee are Ali Baba (Deputy
Chairman), Anita Eboigbe, Baba Agba and Joe Mutah (Secretary).
