Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has introduced plans to institute a health insurance scheme for theatre practitioners within the state. Sanwo-Olu made this recognized throughout a dinner with veterans within the Yoruba Nollywood trade on the Lagos House Marina. The governor was counseled by the Nollywood actors on the occasion, for deeming it match to deal with the health of the theatre practitioners, particularly the veterans within the trade. It could be recalled that in latest occasions, theatre practitioners battling varied health challenges and missing funds have needed to take to social media to beg Nigerians to foot their medical payments.
Some are additionally residing in penury as a consequence of their incapability to work in outdated age and health challenges. Sanwo-Olu, who stated he would pay the insurance premium cowl for the theatre practitioners, most of whom are ageing, stated the Nigerian film trade and practitioners had performed key roles in shaping the event of Lagos.
He stated: “We realise that your trade is likely one of the highest employers of labour. You have continues to supply succor and technique of livelihoods to plenty of residents quietly. More importantly, you give freshness to our lives via your tales.
There is at all times a lesson and data to study from the experiences you paint in your works. You fill within the inventive area of our society and tasks good values about our tradition, lifestyle and race. “To additional improve our intervention, we’re going to provoke an insurance scheme to help the Nollywood and provides the practitioners free entry to health care in public health services. This scheme might be specifically categorized for professionals within the movie business. This is yet one more token of what the federal government can provide those that have formed our society.
The insurance scheme would turn out to be useful for practitioners who can’t afford medical bills and forestall them from searching for help in an embarrassing method.” The governor additional stated his administration would proceed to contribute required assets to the leisure and inventive trade to make life simple for the theatre practitioners.
He additionally pledged to supply extra intervention funds for these within the Nollywood trade. Speaking earlier, a few of the theatre practitioners on the occasion, together with Adebayo Salami, a.okay.a Oga Bello, Jide Kosoko, Adewale Elesho, Idowu Phillips, a.okay.a Iya Rainbow and Mahmoud Alli- Balogun, counseled the Sanwo-Olu – led administration for finishing up peopleoriented tasks, which in keeping with them, are people-oriented, and qualify him for a second time period in workplace.
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