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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) and the Nigerian Copyrights Commission (NCC), yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding to curb piracy and protect intellectual property.
According to a statement by the spokesman of the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, the MoU signed at the Head offices of the EFCC in Abuja, is to formalize the collaboration between the two agencies to enhance their efforts to curb piracy and intellectual property theft.
The chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde, stated that “it was shameful and disheartening for people to steal and profit from the intellectual work of others. People take pleasure in stealing the works of others… the thing to do is to stop these pirated goods from coming into the country.”
Afam Ezekude, the director general of the NCC said “NCC has a policy of zero tolerance for piracy and believes in fostering corporate partnership with other agencies, both nationally and internationally, in furtherance of this objective.”
He said “such relationship with the Nigerian Customs Service, recently helped the agency to intercept six containers of pirated works with a street value of N6 billion,” the statement said.
Source: Daily Trust
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