draft before it’s sent to the National Assembly for passage into law.
It would be recalled that in 2006, the Nigerian Film Corporation set up a steering committee for MOPPICON. The committee, which was made up of what was then considered as elected representatives of all sectors of the motion picture industry in Nigeria, actually generated the much talked about draft MOPPICON bill. The committee reportedly met severally and received memoranda from stakeholders cut across virtually all the geograhical zones of the federation.But while the committee completed its task and submitted the draft MOPPICON bill several years ago, owing to bureaucratic bottlenecks between the Ministries of Culture, Information and Justice, successive administrations including Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and the late Umaru Yar’Adua were unable to send the bill to the National Assembly for passage into law.If passed into law, MOPPICON will stand as “a working manual of the industry.”