Deputy Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, has said that opponents of the Hate Speech Bill are ignorant of the dangers that loom if the bill is not passed into law.
Citing a report by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom on ‘Overcoming Dangerous Speech and Endemic Religious Divides in Central Nigeria’, Senator Sabi Abdullahi said persons with strong bias capable of escalating ethnic and religious violence are infiltrating the media. “Outside the immediate communities affected by a specific incident, the general public’s understanding of violent events is often incomplete.
The CITAD report reads in part, “In 2017, Nigeria experienced the continuation of three major conflicts that provided a fertile ground for the propagation of hate speech.
No sir. No one is misinforming us. It is you are is so incompetent and miscellaneous. Because we disagree often in Nigeria over issues, should that call for a bill on hate speech?
Your right of freedom is guaranteed if you do infringe on the right of others or post unwarranted statement to the social media to slander your neighbours on the guise of freedom of speech We should be civilised in our intelligent reporting or comments to progress this country
Hate speech beget violence and destroy the co existence of a country We should stop engaging in political and social destruction under the umbrella of freedom of speech Remember the story of Rwanda It was set ablaze with hate speech that led to the death of millions of people
I am surprised on d negative comments on d bill of hate speech It appears we prefer to exibit hatred than love and set the nation ablaze under the guise of freedom of speech Yes,the constitution guarantee freedom of speech but it did not say we should use it to destroy ourselves
The senators that's not ignorant should explain to the people he's supposed to be serving how the 'hate speech bill' will solve the numerous problems Nigeria is facing ( poverty, unemployment, insecurity etc )
If you know it's too good for you,then, go to your state house of assembly and tell the lawmakers to make it as a law only in your senatorial district
“The senators cannot prescribe the death penalty for looters because they do not want to sentence themselves to death; it is easier to send others to death. If you prescribe the death sentence for looters, then a lot of them would not be alive.”
How can those misinforming Nigerians be ignorant? C'mon ignorant can't misinform us.
If there is anybody dt is more ignorant, self seeking n self preserving, it is senator Sabi Abdullahi n his co-travellers who believe in gagging d Nig ppl. I would v expected d irresponsible senator t initiate a bill prescribing death penalty for corrupt practices.
This man should go and do something useful. When you get to his constituency now you might be marvelled that he has not completed any tangible project
All the senators advocating for hate speech should be recall from the higher red chamber beginning from on the 10th of December 2019.
From the comments here it shows nobody actually read the full content, you are reacting only based on the headlines
Sabi is a disaster that think in a multi cultural country like Nigeria just bill will succeed, he is a poor student of history and a very naive individual. Freedom of expression and freedom to criticize bad governance. E.g Buhari government shall not and can never be stop.
Those of you championing this foolishness should beware the wrath of nature. Take a good look at all those who betrayed GEJ and receive sense.
This senator's constituency should keep the senator busy doing something worthy for them. He's become a public nuisance with a project that clearly is dead on arrival. Let him devote quality time to promote quality health and education for his constituency
Senator Sabi Abdullahi “hate speech bill' is design to distract Nigerians and create diversion from the intended purpose. Let him difine the boundary conditions for hate speech and let nigerians give it appraisal.
kindly ask Senator Sabi why he is hell bent on HateSpeechBill and/or SocialMediaBill? What exactly makes him afraid of social media. If he is in want of bill proposed, there should proposed an anticorruption bill where offenders should be beheaded.
Senator it's your father and buhari that is ignorant.. Nobody fit kill this man Nonsense ingredient
Just check out which part of the country all those who commented on this thread are from and you understand that they are sponsored by the opposition. Yeye people wasting their time on a bill that has flown already. They are the cause of the bill with hate.
Sabi is daft
This clown thinks we are in an emirate where Buhari’s is the emperor😂😂😂😂
The corrupt NGRSenate should tell Sabi Abdullahi the criminal to stop pushing for radical Islamic HateSpeechBill. Tell him to give Nigerians electricity and other basic necessities of life as found in modern contemporary societies and the hate speech will cease to exist.
Mr Sabi' you no Sabi anything, that's why you are insensitive to the plight of the people. Why can't you move a motion recommending death penalty for looters?
Nigerians should all rise up and SayNoToSocialMediaBill SayNoToHateSpeechBill. Nigerians must resist this government.
Is calling Nigerians 'ignorant' not hate speech?
Nigeria is now an autocratic nation no democracy any more, a country where u must not comment about the wrong doing of ur leaders the people we voted to represent us what a pity
Sabi is the biggest mumu ever known to history...
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