Most Of Our Lawmakers Rarely Speak Because They Have Nothing Sensible To Say – Hilda Dokubo

Nollywood actress, Hilda Dokubo has come out to react to a trending video of a member of the House of Representatives struggling to move a motion during plenary. The clip showed the lawmaker struggling to pass his message coherently while the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu helped him put his thoughts together.

Reacting, it is now obvious that most of these lawmakers rarely speak is because they know they have nothing sensible to say.

Hilda added that it is the same reason they are always angry at those who have no issues expressing themselves.

Her words, “Can we all give him a big round of applause.Kai! Can you all see why they don’t speak? Why those of us who can speak, annoy them?. See what a member of the house of representatives is doing to his people. Let me go and sleep bikonu.”

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.