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On his timeline is a movie on xenophobia. The production lately has seen him go to countries like Ethiopia, Botswana (Gaborone), Zimbabwe, Liberia, and Ivory Coast. “All I want to find out is the truth behind xenophobia which I have gotten”, he claimed. “

worthy as a chairman of any committee at the local government level, that he will definitely show the difference.

A lover of music, it appears the interest of his state, Enugu, lies much at his heart that he had conceived a project and through which to contribute his quota in entertainment, had written to the government for permit to build a Nollywood City in this state with the highest percentage (86%) in movie making locations amongst all the states of the federation, according to him.

As he speaks, the serious disposition of him evinces, the type not regularly seen of him in movies. He wore this unfunny look and eases of sign of displeasure. “Enugu state obliged. And then a whole lot of preparation was done. Somewhere along the line, ‘we’ heard that some group of people assembled themselves to meet the government to tell them to stop me from doing it alone that group like them should be involved.”

Meanwhile the opposing group he alleged were major Nollywood practitioners were at the same time soliciting for land from the government for a project to be called ‘Actors’ Village’, which he believe is far below what he’s looking at. “What I was trying to do is for everybody and not for one person alone. Its going to be a town. . . a city on its own.

And then government of Enugu state will benefit from it massively, even the federal government will benefit from it too because of tourism. we going to develop a school there.

“I created the opportunity, I registered the name of ‘Nollywood City’, then I paid lawyer, then I invited developers from South Africa and investors from few other countries that are ready to invest. The architect finished drawing which were given to the government and then they gave it a nod that it should be built. I then chose some areas which doesn’t go down with the government.

“I then said ‘okay fine if it doesn’t go down well with you guys you people can now give me a place of your choice. Its been since last year (2016) and I have waited I don’t know what have been delaying them. So we are waiting for the government to just a finger point ‘look at the place’, and then we start immediately. I have waited for so long and I don’t know . . . its all about government thing so it has taken time.”

On his timeline is a movie on xenophobia. The production lately has seen him go to countries like Ethiopia, Botswana (Gaborone), Zimbabwe, Liberia, and Ivory Coast. “All I want to find out is the truth behind xenophobia which I have gotten”, he claimed. “And they have given me support because I attended the meeting of African Diaspora Forum (ADF) in South Africa.”

At the meeting there was a great number of African countries together and high commissioners who attended. “They hosted me and asked me how do I feel about today’s meeting. I told them its something that’s happening in Africa that’s not suppose to happen. There and then they asked me what are those things that this is African Diaspora Forum that anything can be repaired.

“I said that I’m pleading that since you people have given me right to shoot xenophobia, through a peaceful introduction of that quarrel, I’m going to mediate the fight because I’m not going to bring out the real cause of that problem. But I’m going to act from the settlement level so that I broker between each countries and South African who are the bone of contention.

The movie is being scripted right now. “So I employed a writer who is now writing and within a space of six months it should be done because the writer is also travelling around those countries gathering his own findings.” Expectedly by May, 2018, “he will be ready with the script.”