OUR attention has been drawn to the letter of Messrs. I.C. Ejiofor & Co,
Think Tank Media and Advertising has reacted to a letter written by the Performing Musicians Employers Association of Nigeria (PMAN) to the Hon. Minister of Information and Culture, with regard the recently held Creative Industry Financing Conference it put together.
In the letter, PMAN alleged that the Creative Industry Financing Conference was its brainchild and that the Minister plagiarized the concept of the Conference from an idea and/or proposal submitted to him by PMAN and consequently infringed its intellectual property in the said idea.
However, reacting to the letter, the management of Think Tank Media described it as a calculated attempt to unjustifiably malign the person of the Minister.
The Managing Director of the outfit, Taiwo Olukunle stated that the Creative Industry Financing Conference is a project which it solely conceptualized and is borne out of its innate desire to find a solution to the problem of financing that has over the year hampered the development of the Nigeria Creative Industry.
“Think Tank approached and indeed secured the participation of the Ministry of Information and Culture to this conference. Being the custodian and the Ministry that regulates the Creative Industry in Nigeria, we were accorded with full support of the Ministry towards the successful hosting of the Conference,” he said.
According to him, neither the Minister nor the Ministry of Information and Culture has anything to do with the conceptualization and development of the Creative Industry Financing Conference.
“We wish to put on record, that the allegation against the person of the Minister of Information and Culture, Mr. Lai Mohammed with regard the Creative Industry Financing Conference is spurious, highly misplaced and borders on a sinister plan to intentionally malign his person and put his good works into disrepute. The Conference is the product of our creative effort and not that of the Minister or the Ministry, Olukunle added.