{"id":326610,"date":"2011-03-21T11:10:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T11:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/21\/nigerian-films-a-must-watch-in-drc-%e2%80%93-ambassador\/"},"modified":"2011-03-21T11:10:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T11:10:37","slug":"nigerian-films-a-must-watch-in-drc-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/21\/nigerian-films-a-must-watch-in-drc-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian films, a must-watch in DRC \u2013 Ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kinshasa\u00a0 –\u00a0 The Nigerian ambassador in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Mr Hussein Abdullahi, said on Sunday in Kinshasa that Nigerian films were a must-watch for the Congolese.<\/p>\n

`The Nollywood films are doing well in Congo to the point that even the Congolese President Joseph Kabila watches Nigerian films,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

`We have been talking to Nigerians that it is another platform for us to be able to showcase Nigeria to the world. Nollywood is doing well in the DRC.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

The ambassador said\u00a0 Nollywood\u00a0 films showcased Nigeria to the outside world and they are shown in cinema houses, video clubs, and shops and even in market places across Congo.<\/p>\n

According to him, these films are very educational and have united many unhappy families in the DRC after watching some of them.<\/p>\n

The ambassador also recalled that Nigerians had been on the peace-keeping operations in the DRC and had contributed to the peace and stability in the country.<\/p>\n

He stressed that Nigeria had been known to contribute to peace-building and peace-keeping in many parts of the world, and particularly in Africa where it is a formidable member of the African Union.<\/p>\n

Abdullahi alsosaid\u00a0 that Nigeria would translate its bilateral agreement with the DRC into a working tool by ensuring that the joint bilateral commission became vibrant<\/p>\n

3000 Nigerians live and trade in DRC \u2014 Ambassador
He further declared that about 3,000 Nigerians live and trade in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Nigeria\u2019s ambassador in that country, Mr Hussein Abdullahi, has said.<\/p>\n

The DRC has a population of 67 million, Abdullahi said\u00a0 that most of the Nigerians were from the south eastern part of Nigeria and that they traded in auto spare parts, electronics, food items and clothing.<\/p>\n

Majority of them, he said, operated their businesses from containers placed I various parts of the city.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Kinshasa we have 3,000 Nigerians mostly from the South East and they are essentially in the spare part trade going to Dubai and China to buy these things and sell within Congo and other countries like Zambia and the rest.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have just been able to establish the union. The president is Emeka Ejike and we are trying to ensure that we flag them with the new policies of what we call the citizen diplomacy.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Abdullahi urged Nigerian airlines trying to establish link in Congo to be involved in insuring that the Nigeria union is involved in these trade with them.<\/p>\n

According to the ambassador, DRC is a land-locked country and has problem in terms of trading through a sea port. Its port is not big enough for maritime trade, but Nigerians are doing their best t cope.<\/p>\n

The ambassador added that Nigeria\u2019s balance of trade with the DRC was difficult to establish because the former Belgian colony had been through more than four decades of war and was just trying to stabilise its political arrangement.<\/p>\n

He said while some countries had closed their embassies in the DRC because of its political crises, Nigeria had stayed on, making it the oldest diplomatic mission in that country.<\/p>\n

Abdullahi also noted that Nigerians living in the DRC were not known for criminal activities, except in some cases where some did not regularize their residency papers, a phenomenon common among foreigners living in that country.<\/p>\n

\u201c Nigerians are not involved in human trafficking. They are content with their spare parts business,\u2019\u2019 he stressed.<\/p>\n

The ambassador said that the president of the Nigeria business union had been doing his best to organise the businessmen and women and educating them on how best to conduct themselves.<\/p>\n

Abdullahi explained that majority of the Nigerian business people in the DRC got into the country through relations already resident there. (NAN)<\/p>\n

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