No Government Gave Me House To Stay—Veteran Actor, Lari Williams

A veteran in the Nigeria film industry, Lari Williams has debunked rumours making the rounds that he was given a two-bedroom flat somewhere in Lagos.

Williams also said he was only conferred with a Member of the Federal Republic (MFR) by the Federal Government without any monetary reward attached to it.

“I have heard people say that the Lagos State or the Federal Government had given me a two-bedroom flat somewhere, it is all lies,” the former President of Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

Williams further disclosed that it is very bad that the older generation don't pass on what they know to the younger generations. This he attributed to bad structures.

According to him, “We are not handing over what we have in us to the next generations; because the room was not created for that. Look at Femi Robinson who played the second headmaster-character in the Village Headmaster: a Nigerian television drama, Dan Maraya Jos and others, they all died with nothing.”

He advised “the present government” to be “very careful in whom it will appoint as ministers, that it will send to the arts sector. We need hands-on individuals to be made ministers.”