Nollywood: Yul Edochie Slams Fashola

Popular Nollywood actor Yul Edochie has responded to the claims by a former governor of Lagos State and Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, over his statement that Nollywood movies only promote kidnapping and ritual killings in the society.

Fashola speaking on the topic: ‘Insecurity: Taking actions against organised crime’, had claimed that Nollywood movie contents could be reinforcing kidnapping through the belief system that human skulls and other parts of the human body could be used for money rituals.

Edochie, reacting to the statement; “Sadly at the moment Nigeria is stuck with a crop of leaders who can’t move this country forward, rather they look for who to blame for their inefficiency. America has been producing action movies with plenty of gun violence since I was born till date, have you ever seen any American leader blaming entertainers for crime in their country?

"That’s because it’s all entertainment. It ends there. Our government should focus on providing jobs for the youths, spread wealth, improve the economy and security and crime rate will reduce. It’s very simple. They should stop looking for who to blame and do the jobs they were voted in to do or resign for others to try. Next thing you’ll see them thinking of how to ban Nollywood and render more people jobless,” he said.