Censors Board Seeks Special Mobile Courts to Sanitise Film Industry

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Director General National Film and Video Censors Board and Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory, Hon. I.M. Bukar
Director General National Film and Video Censors Board and Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory, Hon. I.M. Bukar
The Director General of the National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB), Ms. Patricia Bala, has called for collaboration between the Board and the courts within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) towards a speedy dispensation of judgment for those who offend the law setting up the Board.

The Director General is also requesting for a special mobile court for the Board to facilitate trial of those who violate the laws setting up the board so as to protect the morals of the society.

Bala made these call during a courtesy call on the Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory, Hon. I.M. Bukar in his office in Abuja.

While enumerating the challenges facing the Board, the Director General stressed the need for a Judicial Seminar on the nature and character of the National Film and Video Censors Board vis-à-vis the enabling law.

In his response, the Chief Judge, Federal Capital Territory, Hon. Justice I.M Bukar thanked Bala for the visit and assured her of doing his best within the confines of his jurisdiction to make sure that the Board is given maximum support to discharge its legal mandate of sanitizing the society of unwholesome film products.

Earlier, the Director General, briefed the chief judge on the functions of the Board which include the registering and licensing of distributors, registering and licensing of premises for the exhibition and distribution of movies, to censor film and video works as well as prescribing safety standards in the premises used for the exhibition and distribution of films in the country.

Hon. Justice Burkar observed that there is the need to amend the enabling law of the Board so as to enable the organization function effectively. According to him, “there is a lacuna created in the ability of your organization to monitor properly, because it should have been empowered to censor the producers so that upon production, you have first access before anybody sees it and determine the suitability of that product to the consumption of the society before it escapes to the distributors”

To him, the present process of the Board dealing with the distributors instead of the producers envisage that we are all sane and law abiding that after the product has reached the distributor, he will voluntarily bring it to the Board’s attention.

The visit is part of the strategic effort of Bala to re-position the Board for a better service delivery to the public.

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