…nearly forty years after, Decree 4 is making a return in the name of a Hate Speech Bill. It is blandly called, “National Cohesion and Integration Act”, with the mandate to establish an Independent National Commission for Hate Speeches for the Prohibition of Hate Speeches. The bill, receiving Senate hearing and public opprobrium at the moment, recommends the death by hanging…In 1984 when we all stood in awe of Decree Four, to differ with the government and its officials was a dinner with agony.
The bill, sponsored by Senator Abdullahi Sabi of the ruling All Progressives Congress , passed its first reading on Tuesday, November 12, with provisions frighteningly at odds with a democratic setting such as ours. The legislation proposes: Worried compatriots say what makes the proposed law dangerous and therefore unacceptable is that it would leave the definition of hate speech in the hands of a government that does not suffer free speech to exist. That is a leap back to 1984.
He says: “Under Section 4 of the Constitution, NASS can only legislate on matters in the exclusive and concurrent lists. I have looked at those lists. I have not found any one where the NASS has been empowered to make the law on hate speech. It is a state affair on residual list.”
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