Guilds in the Nigerian film industry, popularly known as Nollywood, have urged the Federal Government to retain the National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) as it implements the Oronsaye Report.

The leaders of various guilds gave the advice in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday. NAN reports that Mr George Akume, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), recently directed Hannatu Musawa, Minister of Arts, Culture and Creative Economy, to begin the immediate dissolution of NFVCB.

The directive aimed to subsume NFVCB as a department within the ministry but by-passed the legal process required to repeal the law establishing the Nollywood regulatory agency. The development has however sparked reactions from stakeholders across the country.

The Nigerian Senate had also asked the Federal Government to halt the winding down of the board, citing a breach of the law. It said the process of winding down an agency of government which came into force through an Act of Parliament should commence with the repeal of the act establishing it.

Nollywood guilds which work directly with NFVCB, have expressed displeasure over any policy that intend to either merge, subsume or scrap the regulatory agency.