FG Blaming Governor Fubara For Its Own Security Failures Is Misplaced – Kenneth Okonkwo

Nollywood actor and former spokesperson for the Labour Party, Kenneth Okonkwo has come out to react to the declaration of State of Emergency in Rivers State by President Bola Tinubu. He recently had his say via a post on his social media page, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, the declaration is illegal and unconstitutional because restoring peace in this instance should not involve the removal of elected representatives of the people.

He added that blaming the Governor for the security failures of the Federal Government in Rivers is definitely misplaced.

His words, “Security of Nigeria is the exclusive reserve of the Federal Government, which controls all the security forces. The Governor has no police to command.

Blaming the Governor for the security failures of the Federal Government in Rivers is misplaced.

It is in this regard that I urge the National Assembly to reject this illegal removal of the elected representatives of Rivers State and declare it undemocratic. There’s nothing extra ordinary with what is happening in Rivers State.

There is a gang up of state looters against a Governor who refused to give them the key to the purse of Rivers State. They have been trying to remove him without success because of the support of Rivers people for their Governor necessitating the President trying to remove him through the back door.

It’s unfortunate that a sitting President will assist in unravelling our democracy. All democratic forces must rise up against this undemocratic act.”

WOW.

Nollywood is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry. The origin of the term dates back to the early 2000s, traced to an article in The New York Times. Due to the history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no clear or agreed-upon definition for the term, which has made it a subject to several controversies.

The origin of the term “Nollywood” remains unclear; Jonathan Haynes traced the earliest usage of the word to a 2002 article by Matt Steinglass in the New York Times, where it was used to describe Nigerian cinema.

Charles Igwe noted that Norimitsu Onishi also used the name in a September 2002 article he wrote for the New York Times. The term continues to be used in the media to refer to the Nigerian film industry, with its definition later assumed to be a portmanteau of the words “Nigeria” and “Hollywood”, the American major film hub.

Film-making in Nigeria is divided largely along regional, and marginally ethnic and religious lines. Thus, there are distinct film industries – each seeking to portray the concern of the particular section and ethnicity it represents. However, there is the English-language film industry which is a melting pot for filmmaking and filmmakers from most of the regional industries.