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Minister Inducts Implementation Committee For Creative Industry Covid-19 Initiatives

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The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has
inaugurated the Implementation Committee for the Post Covid-19
Initiatives on the Creative Industry, with a charge to the committee
to design an implementation plan that will catalyze the growth of the
industry.
While performing the inauguration virtually in his office in Abuja on
Tuesday, the Minister listed the Terms of Reference for the committee
as including the design of an implementation plan on the immediate and
short-term relief for the Creative Industry, in the wake of the
Covid-19 pandemic.
Others, he said, are to design a Policy Framework for Tax Relief for
the various sectors in the Creative Industry, if it is identified as
one of the measures aimed at achieving immediate and short-term relief
for the Industry; and to work out a detailed implementation plan for a
long-term intervention for the overall development of the Creative
industry in Nigeria.
Alhaji Mohammed, who described the Creative Industry as the second
biggest job creator in the country after agriculture, urged members of
the Implementation Committee to approach its assignment with a great
sense of duty, as the development and growth of the Creative Industry
are crucial to the nation’s economy.
He once again commended the Committee on Post Covid-19 Initiatives on
the Creative Industry for producing a ‘phenomenal’ report, noting that
the committee went beyond the call of duty to produce a well-researched report.
In his remarks, Otunba Segun Runsewe, the Chairman of the
Implementation Committee and the Director General of the National
Council for Arts and Culture, pledged his committee’s readiness to
come up with robust recommendations for the overall benefit of the
Creative Industry and the nation in general.
Otunba Runsewe, who commended the Minister’s foresight on the
initiative, said Nigeria has taken the lead in the West African
sub-region in thinking out of the box to address the challenges
foisted on the Creative Industry by the Covid-19 Pandemic.
The committee, which has six weeks to submit its report, also
comprises Ali Baba (Deputy Chairman); Anita Eboigbe; Baba Agba and Joe
Mutah (Secretary).
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