Ncc confiscate goods worth billions of naira

Ncc operatives gathering confiscated goods

The Nigerian Copyrights Commission (NCC) has confiscated a staggering amount of pirated materials with the street value running into billions of Naira so far this year.

NCC director general, Bar. Afam Ezekude made this known during a parley with newsmen over the weekend. According to him, the seized
goods have been recovered from a number of states across the country.
The states include Kwara, Nassarawa, the capital Abuja and Lagos where the highest recorded value reached N1.5 billion in one operation at
Appa Wharf Terminal in April.

Literary works such as former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s memoir “My Watch,” foreign DVD’s and even musical works are among a long list of copyrighted products which have been
revealed in frequent reports produced by Mr Augustine Amodu, the director of the enforcement department in Abuja.

A crackdown on illegal production and distribution of copyright work led to the arrest of eight people by the NCC in major areas around Kaduna Town on 22nd July while less than two weeks later after thorough surveillance headed by Amodu, over 4,700 copies of musical CDs, DVDs and VCDs estimated at N2,300,000 were confiscated in Enugu state on August 5.

Source: Guardian