When it surfaced that the Ghanaian Movie Industry had slammed a whopping $1000 levy on Nigerian Actors seeking to work in Ghana so as to protect the interest of local Actors, various Nigerian writers, bloggers and commentators resulted to dirty little politics by failing to see any reason why Ghana could enforce any sort of levy targeting Nigerian Actors(invaders).
Some even went to the extent to articulate that, Ghanaians are very ungrateful and after years of help, support and nurturing by the Nigerian Movie industry, how dare Ghanaians throw such a levy out.
The worse of these dirty politics was the disrespect that poured out of the lips of the many Nigerian online commentators and bloggers who said among other things that, the Ghanaian movie industry has nothing to offer Nigerians, has never helped the Nigerian industry and as such a levy slammed on Nigerians will be a detriment to the “parasiting” Ghanaians themselves. (That really did hurt…)
Anyway, in a recent interview published by Nigeriafilms.Com, the president of Nigeria Actors Guild (Segun Arinze) emphatically stated that “Lately, a lot of Nigerians have been flooding Ghana to produce their movies and over there, you are given value for money”. This was his answer to the question, why are Ghanaians imposing a levy on Nigerians.