You Don’t Need Laws to Promote Entertainment | Ben Murray-Bruce

Chairman of Silverbird group and also Senator, Ben Murray Bruce has clearly stated that you don’t need the national assembly to make laws to be able to promote entertainment.

The politician and business magnate emphasized the fact that we need to change Nigerian system to make the entertainment industry grow. He made this known recently while granting an interview to HipTv.

“You don’t need laws to promote entertainment, it’s a free market. The people you look down upon; the people in Ajegunle, the people in the ghetto, the people who are poor, who have no fathers, no mothers, they are the people that lead the country. The poorest of us are the ones that sing and dance and teach you the new dance steps, teach you the new song and the rich imitate the poor. So the people you look down upon are now the heroes of our nation. These heroes must be protected and looked after. They must be given the opportunity to make a lot of money, so they can be successful, look after their families and that’s what we want. Otherwise, we leave nobody out of poverty. “So, entertainment or sports or music or dance or art- these are the weapons used by African Americans to get out of the ghetto. Anytime I see that child running by the side of a car, I see a 100m world champion, that’s what I see. But somebody else sees a nuisance. So, we don’t need laws, we need government  and the minister of sport to say that kid can be a world champion, can be a hero of our time. That child shouldn’t be put in jail, that child shouldn’t be condemned, that child is a world champion. We don’t need laws, we need compassion. Don’t hate that child, don’t abuse or throw him away, take that child and say ‘you are gonna be a world champion’.” As an activist, he went on to explain the original concept behind his much talked about Common Sense Theory: “A lot of things make sense but nobody thinks about it.  I told Yaradua 20 years ago that we should have a ministry of common sense. I said that to successive presidents. I went to Harvard university and spoke that all African president should have a Ministry of Common Sense. Because some policies by government make no sense, you have to wonder whether they think through the process. If they don’t think through the process, they make policies  that hurt the people they are suppose to protect  and then there is something wrong with leadership. We need to have a Ministry of common sense that could dissect it , understand it, implement it for the benefit of people that voted them into office.”