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Alaba Can’t Be Shut Down!

Posted by NollywoodMohits on September 20, 2009 at 9:27am
Alaba Can’t Be Shut Down! Onyeka Onwenu and Tony Okoroji are expired artistes! The Coalition of Nigerian artiste are fighting for the shutdown of Alaba, believed to be a pirate haven.They presented a letter to Governor of Lagos, Babatunde Fashola, informing him of “an urgent need to address the debilitating effect of piracy in Lagos State especially the infamous situation in Alaba International Market which has gained the world wide notoriety of being an international hotbed of piracy” and that was what was needed to nail it and get a response from the occupants of Alaba kicking off with an accusation of the musicians being the problem.The president of the Alaba Marketers Association stated that Alaba International market cannot be shut down because “The market is 99.5 per cent known for electronics, electrical and industrial parts, and not for music and home video only.We want to debunk the talk that Alaba market is the capital of pirated, counterfeited and sub-standard products. Precisely on 29th of July 2009, we signed here an MOU with the Federal Ministry of Trade and Commerce, the Standards Organisation of Nigeria, the Consumer Protection Council and the National Environmental Protection Agency, NIRA as well as the Nigeria Police Force. I use this medium to tell our numerous costumers that Alaba market is safe for your business; we are assuring you that whenever any product is bought here in Alaba and if it is found wanting, please come back to the association, you have the right to derive utility from any product you bought. Alaba is saying NO to all the negative vices associated with the market including piracy.Big Artistes such as 2face Idibia, 9ice, Timaya, Psquare, Ruggedman, M.I, Face, Olu Maintain, Idris Abdukareem, 2Short, Terry G to mention but a few, all market their works in Alaba market. Also, top comedy stars market their works here. So, who is fooling who? Is it Onyeka Onwenu and Tony Okoroji who are expired artistes? Okoroji sang last in 1983. In fact, the musicians are the real pirates of their works because they come everyday begging us to include their songs in illegal compilation CDs.Truly I am not saying that Alaba is totally free from piracy, what we are saying is that even if it is only one per cent of piracy that exists in Alaba, in unison we are saying NO to that one per cent.The government of Alaba International Market including myself and other executive chairmen like Chief Wilson Ozoemena; Chairman, Fancy and Furniture Dealers Association, Chief Ezeani Celestine; Vice Chairman Electronic Sections And Chief Ogonna Nkemdilim, Chairman, CD Dealers Association, all say NO to piracy.”
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