The an­nu­al re-en­act­ment of the Can­boulay Ri­ots of 1881, which forms part of the NCC’s an­nu­al Car­ni­val of­fer­ings, will not be put on this year by the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC), and will be held at NA­PA, Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease is­sued by the Com­mis­sion, the re-en­act­ment will be staged for two days.

“In­stead of this pro­duc­tion, which was orig­i­nal­ly sched­uled for Fri­day Feb­ru­ary 25 at 5 am, there will be two stag­ings of the epic re-en­act­ment at the NA­PA, card­ed for two days, Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 25 at 5.00 a.m. and 8.00 pm, and Sun­day Feb­ru­ary 27 at 11.30 pm,” the NCC state­ment ex­plained.

It added: “The Com­mis­sion is of the view that, in light of the over­all pauci­ty of re­sources avail­able to the Car­ni­val 2022 ini­tia­tive, a greater com­mu­nal ben­e­fit would be de­rived from its di­rect sup­port of the an­nu­al pro­duc­tion at its close­ly lo­cat­ed sis­ter or­gan­i­sa­tion, rather than by the un­nec­es­sary and cost­ly du­pli­ca­tion of ef­forts.”

The an­nu­al re-en­act­ment is spear­head­ed by Mrs. Pearl Ein­tou Springer and the Idake­da Group.

“The Com­mis­sion wish­es Mrs. Pearl Ein­tou Springer and the Idake­da Group abun­dant suc­cess with this his­tor­i­cal­ly and cul­tur­al­ly rel­e­vant pre­sen­ta­tion,” the NCC said.