Lai Mohammed preaches core values to Nigerians, advocates support for creative industry

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has urged Nigerians to marry technology with core values as this makes the difference between a brute and a decent man.

Mohammed made the call at the cast of “Death and the King’s Horseman”, produced by the Founder of Terra Kulture, Bolanle Austen-Peters, on Monday in Lagos.

“Death and the King’s Horseman”, a play by Wole Soyinka, is based on a real incident that took place in Nigeria during the colonial era.

In his remark, Lai Mohammed said, “We probably cannot go back living in caves. We know what technology has done. We know the value of modern medicine, but we must take it together with our core values. It is those core values that are very important.

“It is those core values that will make the difference between a brute and decent man. That explains why you find that when we talk about rape, incest, on all kinds of crime, it is even more prevalent in the Western world, because, here, there are certain values that are important to us that we must not let go of.

“You must bring up your children every time to understand that there are values which they must keep.”

He urged organisations and individuals to support the creative industry through donations in order to create job opportunities.

According to Lai Mohammed,  the creative industry employs the largest number of people, and is second only to the agriculture industry.

The minister continued, “You can imagine when they were introducing the cast and the crew and staff, imagine how many people earn their livelihoods from Austen-Peters productions.

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“That is why we must continue to encourage creative industry, the arts the film industry, music industry, fashion, makeup, whatever makes up the craziness because after agriculture today, it employs the largest number of people and especially the young and women.

“So, we need to support through donations, sponsorships because this production would not have been possible without the sponsors.”