A Lagos-based musician, Okechukwu Ukeje, popularly known as Nigga Raw, has called on the government to be actively involved in curbing piracy in the creative industry.
Ukeje said that piracy had affected everybody in the entertainment world by preventing them from reaping from what they had sown.
He said: “It is not just a Nigerian thing.
“It is everywhere and the difference is that other climes had brought it to a minimal level.
“We want government to step in.
“The government is the number one gate keeper when it comes to piracy and they would benefit in a huge way.
“It is the government that will make laws and policies and implement them.
“We are handicapped to fight it.”
Ukeje added that it is one thing to make the laws and it is another to implement the laws.
He added: “They have to be serious and equip the necessary agencies mandated to do that, so that it will be effective.
“It has to be in order to make the creators of intellectual properties to gain from their works.”
Ukeje started his music career in 1992.
Some of his hit songs include O Chukwu (It’s God), Alleluyah, Adama and Nutty Nutty.
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