An Hausa female actor has been expelled from the Hausa movie industry after acting against the code of conduct and ethics of the entertainment body.
Rahama Sadau
The Motion Pictures Practitioners Association of Nigeria has expelled Kannywood actress, Rahama Sadau, from the Industry.
Sadau was expelled for featuring in a romantic musical video by Jos born singer, ClassiQ. Sadau’s offence was that she featured in a 4 minute 19 seconds romantic musical video by ClassiQ.
ClassiQ and Rahama Sadau in the video
Reactions poured in immediately the video went viral on social media, with some fans of the popular actress criticising her role in it.
“Rahama has crossed the boundary line this time around. The video is all revealing and this is not proper for a Muslim girl to go this extreme in an open video,” a fan, Maryam Umar, told a correspondent.
The announcement of the actress’ expulsion was contained in a statement by the association and was made available to Premium Times on Sunday.
The statement was signed by Salisu Mohammed, the Secretary of the association.
The association also warned other actors and actresses to henceforth follow the rules binding their participation in the Kannywood film industry.
A communique issued by Motion pictures Practitioners Association of Nigeria MOPPAN and signed by it secretary, Salisu Mohammed, stated reasons for Sadau’s expulsion from acting and participating in any Kannywood activities.
It should be noted that MOPPAN is a coalition of associations that set rules and regulations governing the conduct of actors and actresses, as well as production of movies in northern Nigeria.
The circular reads:
“Sequel to the recent meeting in which a resolution reached by all guilds and associations under the unified body of Motion Pictures Practitioners Association of Nigeria (MOPPA). That Rahama Sadau has been expelled from the Hausa indigenous film industry popularly known as Kannnywood.
“This is as a result of her recent immoral appearance in a certain video song where she appeared in series of visuals (video and pictorial) hugging and cuddling the music artist ClassiQ in his newly released video.
“The leadership of the industry has taken this decision for her violation of its codes of ethics known to all it practitioners.
“By this resolution, the leadership of the industry will no longer tolerate behaviours that are against conduct and ethics laid by the constitution governing the unified leadership of the industry.
“More so, the leadership hopes that this will serve as a deterrent to the actors and actresses to check their public behaviour as they are expected to be good ambassadors to the society they represent.
“Furthermore, a committee has been set to receive and deal with reactions and feed backs to this resolution in respect to the affected actress especially those producers that currently engage her in their projects.
Sadau is currently on vacation in India and is yet to react to her expulsion from the conservative Hausa movie industry as at the time of this report.
Watch the 'romantic video' below: