The Peoples Democratic Party has condemned the Hate Speech Prohibition Bill being processed by the Senate, describing it as savage, repressive, cruel and murderous.
“The PDP notes that the nation already has enough constitutional provisions and extant laws to safeguard a sane and healthy public expression space and cannot allow such cruel law devised to victimise and persecute the citizens, ostensibly as a regime protection measure. “Such obnoxious laws are characteristics of known anti-democratic regimes, as prelude to their suspension or abolition of constitutional provisions to set the stage for totalitarianism.
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