“Thank you for coming, however I will advise you to go about your business, you have the support of the government. Monopoly as an economic policy is gone for good,” he said while receiving a delegation of the board and members of MCSN in his office recently. A statement by MCSN said the delegation, which was led by the society’s chairman, Orits Williki, was there to thank the Minister for his intervention and directives in approving MCSN as a CMO, thereby opening up the copyright sector in the business of royalty collections. “The decision to license your organisation as a collecting society is in the best interest of the nation and the citizens and it is in accordance with international best practices,” Malami said, adding that he has the authority and directive of Mr. President ‘to look into any or all forms of monopoly in any sector of the economy and dismantle it’. Recall that Chairman of COSON, Chief Tony Okoroji, at a recent press conference, described the approval of MCSN as a joke, claiming that the laid down processes for the approval of a CMO in Nigeria were not followed. Williki, in appreciating the decision of the Federal Government, thanked the Honourable Minister for his intervention and resolution of the problem which has been going on for more than two decades. He stated that this is yet another proof that the change promised by the government of President Muhammadu Buhari is for real and would be felt by every Nigerian soon.]]>