Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says if masquerades
were well packaged, dressing and undressing of the masquerades could
provide 1000 jobs for some young Nigerian men. According to
TheCable, Lai said this while speaking at the sectoral debate of the Federal House of Representative in Abuja on May 3rd;
“Most states today have more than one festival a year, but the packaging
and lack of capacity has not enabled them to make the most out of these
festivals. There’s a particular masquerade in the south east, it takes
100 people to dress him, another 100 people to undress him. If this
masquerade is well-packaged, it can provide employment in one week for
more than 1000 young men. These are some of the untapped potentials. I
worked in the airport for 10 years, and I know that if you want your
passport stamped as a foreigner, you slip $100 into your passport. No
tourist would come back to a country where he has to bribe immigration
to enter. No tourist would come to a country where, when he leaves
immigration, he enters a ‘one-chance’ taxi or ‘one-chance’ bus. It’s a
holistic problem and these are all contained in the national tourism
master plan, which I would make available to the house. We must make a
difference between tourist sites and tourist attractions; what we have
in Nigeria are tourist sites. They are not tourist attractions. You need
infrastructure to convert a tourist site to a tourist attraction. If
you don’t have infrastructure, it would always remain a tourist site, In
Cross Rivers reserve park, Nigeria has the oldest forest in the whole
world. It is the oldest in terms of biodiversity, and we have this very
rare, white-mane gorilla in that area, but because my people in Cross
River have decided to turn them to bush meat, they have now escaped.”he
said...now see the blasting...hehehehe
Hehehehe....Reno Omokri joined other Nigerians on twitter to mock Lai Mohammed for saying that if well coordinated, the
dressing and undressing of masquerades in Nigeria can create 1000 jobs per week for men. Lai
Mohammed said this during a sectoral debate at the House
of Representatives today May 3rd. Many Nigerians think this idea of job
creation is a joke. See more reactions abeg
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