The
NCC stormed the market based on tip-off that the plaza was the major
spot where traders download and upload music to customers MP3 and MP4
musical devices.
Items confiscated from the suspects include seven laptop computers, 10 memory cards, four phones.
Leading
the operations was Augustine Alaro Amodu, Director of the agency’s
Enforcement unit; he said that the suspects would be arraigned in court
for violating copyright law and warned any Nigerian engaging in the
illicit business to desist from it because the law will catch up with
them.
“It is unfortunate that
Nigerian music industry has grown so large but this incessant MP3 and
MP4 has drawn the industry down, we are not happy that this ugly
incident happens here and I assure you that from today, we will continue
to do anti-piracy raid. We are doing it all over the country, we did it
in Kaduna, Kano, Enugu today we are in Onitsha. We arrested five
suspects and confiscated laptops and memory cards used for the incessant
illegal business, we can see twenty in one and hundreds in one music in
a MP3 or MP4 (one optical disc)” Amodu stated.
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