The Federal Government and pay TV, Startimes, are plotting a programme to rival MNet’s Big Brother Naija.
The government is angry over what it calls the open sex that, according to him, characterises BBNaija, now its fourth season.
Disclosing this is the Director General of the National Council of Arts and Culture, Chief Segun Runsewe.
He said in Abuja that open sex was alien to Nigerian culture, adding that the NCAC would push an existing bill that tackles the act.
According to Runsewe, the FG has lodged a complaint with the National Broadcasting Commission against live sex on stage during the ongoing reality show.
Runsewe, according to ‘The Punch’, stated this when the President of the National Council of Women Societies, Dr Gloria Shoda, visited him.
Runsewe said, “I will take up the issue of Big Brother Naija; I have spoken with officials of the National Broadcasting Commission because what is going on now is terrible. Having love affairs on screen is not part of our own culture at all.
He said that in 2020, the NCAC would represent the 2008 Nudity Bill titled ‘A Bill for an Act to punish and prohibit nudity, sexual intimidation and other-related offences in Nigeria,” sponsored by the former chairperson, Senate Committee on Women and Youth, Eme Ekaette.
“We are going to represent that bill You can’t fight a battle without a legal framework; we are definitely going to be conscious of that”, Runsewe assured.
The NCWS leadership gone to support the government’s position against the controversial music video released by a popular musician, Augustine Kelechi, aka Tekno, with scenes of four nude women dancing in a moving van on the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge in Lagos.
The artiste, in the four-minute video, was seen throwing money perceived to be dollars at the young nude women.
