By ‘Dayo Showemimo
Veteran Nollywood actor, Ebun Oloyede, popularly known as Olaiya Igwe has blamed the high rate of piracy in the country on production of too many movies by film makers.
Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria, Oloyede said: ‘In fact, the menace is just a secondary problem; the primary problem is the excess films in circulation. You produce like 40 movies in a year and you sell it for N200, the pirate guy would reproduce it and sell it for N100. So, which would the audience go for? It’s the one with lesser price that they would buy. Whose fault is it?’ he asked.
He then went on: ‘You as the producer, you are the cause because you produced too many movies. What we need to do is find how we can minimise the number of works we put into the market, and device a means of putting a good structure in place to protect our artistic works.’
