In late January 2013, the Nigerian Broadcast Commission (NBC) put a ban on a eight Nigerian videos, including Psquare‘s ‘Alingo‘ and Timaya‘s ‘Bum bum‘. Pop singer Adetona Adeyemi better known as Tillman also got the axe on his video ‘Ko ma roll‘.
A week later Tillaman released a video on YouTube calling for a meeting with the NBC and fellow artistes
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Today, Tillaman has released a statement, questioning the NBC’s absence at the inaugural Nigerian Entertainment Conference which held last Friday in Lagos.
He has also announced the upcoming release of the v
ideo for ‘Ko ma roll (remix)‘ which features Burna Boy, Trigga Madtonic, Iyanya, Phyno, Ice Prince.
Read his full statement below…
Several months ago when my video
(Koma Roll featuring Vector) was banned by the NBC, I posted a video on
popular website Youtube to address the issue. I called for NBC to set up
a Censors Board where we can send our videos to like it is in the movie
industry, so as to be well guided on what to release for TV consumption
and avoid the unfortunate event of spending money to do something for
yourself and have someone shut you down without having given you prior
guidelines.
I also called for a conference where
major stakeholders in entertainment can come together to discuss these
issues our industry is facing so we can further work together to take it
to greater heights.
Fast-forward to several months
after, NBC has neither acknowledged the address made to them or
responded to the issues raised. However, NET (a privately owned
entertainment news outfit has put together the first ever National
Entertainment Conference). A successful outing it was, having major
stakeholders all coming together to rub minds, NBC however wasn’t found
anywhere near this project.
We respect and recognize you as a
governing body for an aspect of our industry, but should we see you as a
governing body or an enemy when you have no guidelines listed on your
website or anywhere else for us but ban us anyway, and even after we
plead to you to please do something about it you refuse to respond, and
finally an opportunity was provided by NET and yet again you refused to
come forward and address us like you should?
I speak for myself and for my fellow
artistes. This is our job, this is our livelihood, and whether you
respond to us or not, we must continue to make music/videos to carry on
our trade. It will only be sad if after all these calls to you, you
refuse to do what is right and come out again to release a list of
banned videos. We artistes are a member of the society, and we deserve
our fair trial at being judged!
In this light therefore, after
waiting and hoping NBC will address us as I advocated for but they
didn’t, I have decided to put out my video: Koma Roll (rmx) featuring
Burna Boy, Trigga Madtonic, Iyanya, Phyno and Ice Prince. The video was
directed by Patrick Elis and we as much as possible tried to make it
suitable for general consumption (from guidelines we could gather
online, not from NBC). We even made two edits, an uncut version for
satellite TV and a censored version for NBC-controlled local channels.
NBC, please enjoy the video. I hope
you would have given us a positive response to this by the time we
release the next video (Ori Owo) in two weeks.
Thanks.
Yours faithfully,
Prince Adetona Adeyemi (Tillaman)
-Thenetng
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