IPC, MRA Ask NBC To Withdraw Fines Against Three TV Stations Over Coverage of #ENDSARS Protests

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IPC, MRA Ask NBC To Withdraw Fines Against Three TV Stations Over Coverage of ENDSARS Protests

Two groups, the Media Rights Agenda and the International Press Centre have condemned the sanctioning of three television stations by the National Broadcasting Commission over the coverage of the #ENDSARS protests.

In a letter dated October 23, signed by its Acting Director-General, Prof. Armstrong Idachaba, the NBC fined each of the three stations – Channels Television, Africa Independent Television and ARISE Television – N3 million each as penalty for their alleged use of unsubstantiated footages from social media in their coverage of the #ENDSARS protests.

The NBC said it had earlier written to the companies on October 21, where they were “cautioned on the sustained use of Fake News, disturbing visuals, close-up shots and attacks in the coverage of the #ENDSARS protests”. MRA’s Executive Director, Mr Edetaen Ojo, said: “a situation where the NBC, which is so glaringly lacking in independence and subject to the direct control of political authorities, wrote the Nigeria Broadcasting Code creating the offences for which the stations were sanctioned and was the complainant in the allegations against the stations, prosecuted them and sat in judgment on the matter without even giving the stations any opportunity to defend themselves against the charges while also...

 

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IN FACT, THAT SANCTION AGAINST THE THREE TV STATIONS IS A CLEAR INDICATION OF OFFICIAL BIAS AND ATTEMPT TO HIDE THE TRUTH ABOUT ENDSARS AND LEKKITOLLGATE MASSACRE.

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If those footages were not broadcast Nigerians would have been told they were all fake news

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