very lengthy open letter to Nollywood actor and Delta
State Commissioner for Culture and Tourism,
Richard-Mofe-Damijo.
According to him, Richard failed in his duties as the
Commissioner for Culture and Tourism in Delta.
Read below,
"It's with pains in my heart and with
disappointment that I decided to write you
this letter.Our hopes were high when you were
brought into the Uduaghan government as Special
Adviser onentertainment and Talent development
and later commissioner for culture and Tourism
about 7years ago.
Entertainers in Delta were happy that a veteran has
come back home and also in a better position to
reposition entertainment in Delta state.
Because even before coming into government, you
have being trying all by yourself to develop
entertainment which gave birth to MADE IN
WARRI. It was a proud platform for Warri
entertainers coming together to showcase theirselves.
It became one of the most anticipated shows then
in the country because that's where you get the
real warri comedians. I remember the out going
governor do attend even before he became the
Governor.
He continued,
And so, you can see where am coming from with
this my Open letter.
You happen to be one of the most respected
Nollywood actor in the country and beyond. The
mention of your name makes the ladies go gaga
with the way you play romantic roles on movie set.
And so, so much was expected from you as a
commissioner.
Sir, before I go further, please ask yourself, did
you meet up that expectation? Can you boast of
any achievement all through your tenure?
The first project you embarked on was DELTA
TALENT QUEST (DTQ).
The aim was to discover talents in Delta state and
promote them and so entertainers came out in
their numbers.
A special house was built in Asaba specially for
this project just to mention how serious you took
that project.The project was broken into Comedy,
Music, dance and movie.I participated in
the Comedy Audition but was not among the finally
20 comedians they picked but my close friend
Koliko qualify.That competition made even
Comedian I go laugh to go and buy his car because
he felt he was being insulted by one of the
officials. I still remember how almost all the
comedians in Delta state came out to slog it out
with themselves and be the lucky winner of a
brand new car, 1million and other benefits.
But after all the maiden Edition of comedy, Music,
dance and movie edition was done, it became that
last time DTQ was ever mentioned.
No explanation was given as to why the project
was stopped but a Top comedian recently during a
chat said about 300million is still being budgeted
for that every year and part of it is now being use
to finance One of the BIGGEST CONCERT IN WARRI.
But it still remains an allegation sha but you can't
ignore every allegations these days most
especially in Government.
And the worst part is that when you pay
comedians coming from Lagos atleast 500K, they
pay our DTQ winners 50k and someone still cut the
money before it gets to them.
So you see if there were other words I can use
other than disappointment about your tenure I will
definitely use it.
Sir you have being in this industry to know how
things works but you just sat down, collected your
salaries, bonuses plus all the CORNER MARKINGS
( only warri boys go understand ) and that's all while we are still where we are.
He further stated,
WARRI is the home of entertainment and should be
treated as one.
Its a pity I come from a country where if you
dare speak the truth, you are label as a REBEL
but we owe it as a duty to speak out so that
people should start doing the right thing. Even
as we share the National cake, we should
remember the Cake is for everybody.
Sir if you think all what have said is just my own
personal opinion, send some neutral persons into
the street, you will be shocked with the kind of feed
back you will get.
Sir in Shun Bebe voice, someone asked me, Who
RMD help? i nor go lie i couldn't answer him.
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