The Nigerian Copyright Commission said that it had arrested over 400 pirates of intellectual property and that it would go the extra mile in arresting and prosecuting pirates.The NCC’s Director of Public Affairs, Mr. Ademusi Yemi, told our correspondent on Monday that the commission was committed to combating piracy.“We have made over 400 arrests of suspected pirates, we have recorded over 66 convictions and have over 187 cases pending in court. We take our jobs very seriously,” he said.Yemi described as false the claim by a film-maker that the commission knew who the pirates were but would not arrest them.He said, “It is not true; it is very wrong to say the NCC knows the pirates and refuses to apprehend them. We are mandated to deal with piracy and regulate the copyright industry; we take our jobs very seriously.“The NCC makes regular enforcement raids in all the areas where piracy is endemic. If you go to our website you will find information detailing all the recent raids that were carried out this year and in the past years. The thing is that we are constantly adhering to enforcement raids. Where a case is reported tous, we investigate it and we do street raid to address it.”
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