The Nigerian media, especially the press, undoubtedly had struggled through series of repressive policies since independence – Newspaper Prohibition from Circulation Act of 1967; Public Officers Protection against False Publication Decrees No. 11 of 1976; and No. 4 of 1984; Detention of Persons Decree No. 2 of 1984 and Newspaper Registration Decree No. 44 of 1993, etc. All of these policies were a product of military dictatorship.
According to the NBC, aside from AIT’s habitual failure to pay license fees as and when due, the media company had defied the regulator’s several warnings over its willful and repeated application of hate speech, divisive and inciting comments in discussion of national issues. AIT was particularly observed to have recently created a nexus in which it selects and airs user-generated political comments on social media unedited, knowing how volatile and detrimental they are to national interest.
Beginning with the third premise, any careful observer would know that majority and the most powerful media companies, including AIT, are owned by the very people from whom media freedom is sought – government and their allies, ruling or opposing. Essentially therefore, media freedom is not a bargain between ‘the people’ and the government; it is a struggle between government factions in which ‘the people’ are used for cover-up justifications.
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