The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, Saturday in Abuja, made a robust case for freedom of the press and asked the judiciary to step up the plate and give consequence to citizens liberty through courageous and independent pronouncements and decisions.
In assessing the current state of government-press relations in Nigeria, Mr Dogara ran hard knocks on the government saying it is “anything but banal” adding that “we are all witnesses to recurring examples of coercion, threats, brutality, arrests, incarceration and media shut down perpetrated by the state against journalists and their establishments.”
Democracies are built by refusing to censor the free press Mr Dogara asserted, stressing that “Ours cannot be different.” Mr Dogara argued that while “speeches that elicit debates are welcome …speeches that incite to violence must be punished,” and with that, he took a guided review of the debate on how to regulate hate speech and the social media.
Not when they are now at the mercy of the HANGMAN.
Which judiciary.. The judiciary where the Chief Justice cannot even get justice
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