Nollywood movies aren’t to blame for the rise in ritual killings, says Fidelis Duker

In a recent interview, popular Nollywood actor Fidelis Duker stated that the Nigerian film industry is not to blame for the recent increase in ritual killings in the country.
It was previously said that young Nigerians learned the act from movies depicting ritual scenes.
The most recent incidence involved four adolescents in Ogun beheading a girl named Sofiat for a money ritual.
In an interview with Saturday Beats, Duker, who is also the Executive Director of the Abuja International Film Festival, said that young Nigerians immersed in ritual don’t watch those kinds of films.

“I think to a considerable extent, I differ,” he added. In recent years, the generation of Nigerians who have been participating in ritual killings has been between the ages of 17 and 26.

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Most of them did not watch those kinds of films. Most of the ritual films were produced about 10 and 15 years ago. What I am saying in essence is that Nollywood films cannot be blamed for the increase in ritual killings in the country. In films, even those who engaged in ritual killings usually ended up paying the price for it.

“In a recent Facebook post, I said one of the causes is that we have lost our moral values.

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“A child of 17 years old would bring a new car home and the mother would be celebrating it. What work has he done at 17? A girl in year one in a tertiary institution would be using an iPhone of about N500,000, and one begins to wonder where she got the money from? Those are the issues we should look at. We should not look for an escape route and blame Nollywood films (for all these ills).”