Army Wants Collaboration With Nollywood On Boko Haram War Movies
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To
foster a robust relationship between civilians and the military, the
Nigerian Army has opened a window for collaboration with Nollywood
filmmakers on movies that will endear the military to the people,
including a possible story about insurgency war against the Islamist
extremist group, Boko Haram.
The chief of
civil/military affairs, Nigerian Army Headquarters, Major General Rogers
Ibe Nicholas, at the unveiling of a movie entitled 76 which is set
against the backdrop of war and nation building, described the
partnership as part of the new focus of the military in the new
dispensation under the leadership of Major General Tukur Yusuf Buratai,
Chief of Army Staff.
The movie, starring
Rita Dominic, Chidi Mokeme and Ramsey Nouah, the Adonis with Tonye
Princewill as the executive producer is inspired by events which led up
to and followed the botched 1976 coup d'etat, and features real life,
archived, actual footage that contributes to the movie's overall
authenticity.
Princewill
confirmed that the execution of the movie was also done with the
approval and support from the Nigerian Army. He revealed that the army
made available the facilities at Mokola Barracks, Ibadan where the Izu
Ojukwu-directed movie was shot for six months.
Gen. Nicholas said,
"With every regime come different concepts and ideas. So with the
coming of Gen T.Y Buratai as Chief of Army Staff, he has a vision which
is to have a professionally responsive Nigerian army in discharge of its
constitutional mandate. And part of that is to develop a military/civil
relationship that will close the gap between the military and the
civilians.
"That is what we are trying to do. The issues of people not
having channels to complain are now a thing of the past." He concluded.
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