Those guys don't wants Artist to eat from their service. The Commission on
Thursday said it had seized pirated materials estimated at N25m during
the commission’s raid of the Warri, Ughelli and Sapele areas of Delta
State.
It added that it granted amnesty to some
suspected pirates, who were arrested by officials of the commission
from its Abuja headquarters, with a warning not to return to the illicit
business or risk being jailed.
The commission’s Director of
Enforcement, Mr. Augustine Amodu, who led the team, which was assisted
by armed policemen and soldiers, spoke on Thursday in Sapele.
Amodu said the agency had secured the
conviction of 59 pirates between 2012 and 2016, while 250 cases were
still pending in courts across the country.
Amodu, while decrying the increasing
rate of piracy, especially in the South South and South East, warned
that the commission would not allow “unscrupulous elements” to steal
investment of others.
“The NCC has achieved a major
breakthrough in the fight against pirates in the South South areas of
Warri, Effurun, Ughelli and Sapele. We embarked on a raid that led to
the seizure of N25m materials.
“In Warri, Sapele and Ughelli, the
seizure was enormous. What we have done today is to take back the
intellectual property belonging to registered broadcast outfits in
Nigeria.
“They pick up a decoder, they set it in
their houses and retransmit broadcast materials to about 200 to 300
other houses and collect about N2,000 monthly,” the NCC director of
enforcement stated.
He described the exercise as a warning raid, stressing that whoever was arrested during the next raid would be prosecuted.
Amodu added that the NCC, under the
watch of its Director-General, Mr. Afam Ezekude, was resolute to ensure
that some people did not benefit illegally from the investment of
others.
Nigerian Copyright Commission raids Delta communities, seizes N25m materials used for piracy
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