The long drawn battle for the registration of the Musical Copyright Society Nigeria as a corporate body has finally come to an end with its approval by the relevant government agencies. Popular reggae musician and Chairman of the board for the organisation, Orits Wiliki, says it is time for celebration.
Also, when we took the matter to the National Assembly, they were shocked by the revelation they got through the interviews and investigations that they did. And they had to instruct or direct the NCC to give us approval with immediate effect, because we had been denied unjustly over the years. Only two years ago, we got that. But even after that, we were still in court for another nine months and we won.
But, for instance, if a regulatory body comes into the banking system, will it have to shut down all the banks or wouldn’t it be that it will have to set a standard that those in the sector would have to meet and comply with? We were the first to apply because there was no other organization apart from us.
Ten years down the line, what have you lost personally and what has the body as a whole lost officially? It’s just like the case of PMAN where I was the vice president to Charley Boy. We were pained that the corporate bodies were treating us with disdain. They were bringing foreign artistes and paying them well and giving us peanuts. So we were the ones that fought so that our works are respected. Today, Nigerian artistes are well paid for these shows and are mostly used instead of foreign artistes.
We had then companies like Aibtonia, Dan Irabor and some other smaller promoters. It was the beauty of show business. But we do not have them again. And we used to have the international promoters like Benson and Hedges giving musicians opportunities to tour the whole nation and abroad. We were touring all the time, but we don’t have that again. What we have these days are some corporate shows where one or two youngsters are brought up to mime to one or two songs. That is what is happening now.
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