`Nigerian's Information Minister - Prof. Dora Akunyili
Information Minister, Dora Akunyili has kicked against an attempt by South Africa to bastardise Nigeria, depicting the most populous black nation as a country of criminal gangsters and cannibals.
The image was portrayed in a movie about aliens and discrimination produced by Sci fi movies, handled by Sony Entertainment of South Africa.
The movie titled, “District 9” has been screened in some part of the world and its setting is about aliens and discrimination. It has the Nigerian main characters acting as antagonists.
In the Unite States alone, the movie has capped up about US$37million (Thirty Seven Million US Dollars) as it debuted in the last weekend of August.
More, Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo was deeply embedded in the film, which played on the intelligence of 160million Nigerians by spelling Obasanjo’s name as Obesandjo, a main character and the head of a gangster.
The South African based Sci-fi movie has been vehemently rebuffed by Akunyili who has requested for unreserved apology from Sony Entertainment, the producer of the movie.
‘Obesandjo’ acted as a main Nigerian gangster in the film.
Associated Press has reported the movie as one of this summer’s biggest blockbusters.
In one scene, Obesandjo tries to cut off and eat the arm of the film’s protagonist, in an attempt to gain his supernatural powers.
In others, Nigerian prostitutes are seen courting alien customers to lure them into sexual acts.
Minister Akunyili has repelled all attempts to bring the movie to Nigeria for screening after watching it with other members of Yar’adua’s cabinet, saying it was not welcome as it degraded the real personality of Nigeria.
The Minister also has appealed to movie houses across the world to join Nigeria in the fighting against this racial degradation urging that unless the bastardised areas of the movies were removed, Nigeria will regard the film as contemptuously offensive.
The Minister has requested for apologies from the producer, Sony Entertainment, while asking them to edit out the main gangster character, Obesandjo and the associated depiction of Nigeria as a country of gangsters and cannibals.
The representative of the movie company in South Africa refused to comment when contacted by Associated Press last weekend.
The movie has been seen in Nigeria circle here in Britain as an attempt by a minority illiterate to draw Nigeria into unnecessary diplomatic row.
All attempt to get the views of The Nigerian Embassy here last night proved abortive as there was no answer during several calls made to the embassy.
Dr Akunyili since assumption of office has championed a new course for the re-branding of Nigeria in the face of deliberate blackmail and wrong perception of her people, the result of which has seen many Nigerians across the world maltreated at the port of entrances.
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