Veteran Nollywood actor Jide Kosoko has declared that it is wrong to claim that youths in the country learn ritual killings, kidnapping from Nollywood movies.
The thespian who was speaking in an interview with Channels TV said that people should not forget that actor’s have a responsibility to mirror the society.
He said that we have heard of politicians embezzling money here and there.
‘‘Are you saying that they learnt embezzlement in our movies too?’’, Jide Kosoko asked.
The actor said; ”It’ a wrong accusation. A very wrong accusation. People should not forget that we have a responsibility to mirror the society and this not just by …we only try to mellow it with entertainment.
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‘‘It is our duty to let you know what happens at the other end for it to guide you, for you to be informed so that you can be able to know what and what to do.
‘‘We have heard of politicians embezzling money here and there. Are you saying that they learnt embezzlement in our movies too? All those people displaying money here and there, at occasions, at various functions. Are we the ones that taught them that?
‘‘In every production we would never glorify evil. Whichever movie that idiot says he watched a movie that made him want to be kidnapping people, go and see that movie. What is the end of that person that kidnapped people? Why did he not learn from that and desist from going into the business of kidnapping rather than saying it is the movie. So it is not right. We have our own duty to mirror the society and give it as it is. One of the things we do, we get them from the public. We try as much as possible to play down on them before dishing it out.
‘‘I agree that the country is hot now and everybody should play down whatever that can aggravate violence, not our industry alone.
‘‘Politicians should stop displaying money everywhere that entices these negative youth thinkers,” Jide Kosoko concluded.
