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The Nigerian Inspector-General of Police, Mr Mike Okiro, has said that the police may have to vet
the scripts of films produced in Nigeria, as he expressed reservations at the indiscriminate use of police equipment
by Nigerian film producers.
Addressing senior police officers from the rank of commissioners and above at their monthly briefing in Abuja on
Tuesday, Okiro said he was tired of the way policemen were being portrayed in some scripts as monsters.
"We are going to meet the film producers on the issue of usage of police uniform and
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equipment in films being produced in the country... The way and manner police men are portrayed in these films do not relate to
facts on ground. Our policemen are courteous and responsible and not the way they are represented in the films".
He added.
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"We may have to insist on vetting scripts where policemen and equipment are to be featured before we will give them
the permission to use or apparatus and uniform." To this end, the Inspector General of Police is inviting film
producers to a meeting on February 26 where issues concerning professionalism and how to curb the excesses of the
producers would be discussed.
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"The way and manner police men are portrayed in these films do not relate to facts on ground."
Mike Okiro
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“…We may have to insist on vetting scripts where policemen and equipment are to be featured, before we will give them
permission to use our apparatus and uniform,” he added.
NPF forcing the image
The Nigerian police are not naturally known as a paragon of virtue by any account. The producers and film writers may
exaggerate things a bit but they don’t even have to. For ordinary Nigerians living and working on the street of Lagos
may not see any difference from what they watch in the movie and the street.
So IG Okiro may consider looking elsewhere preferably within his own force to correct this bad image. Credit to him
though, the fact that he noticed this bad portrayal suggest that he is doing something different from his predecessor.
If he can get the NPF to clean their notorious image I have no doubt that the Nigerian film industry will reflect that
too.
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