NPC bill, overkill, things are hard, FG should face reality – Mass Comm expert, Oso - Punch Newspapers

The bills on the Nigerian Press Council and the Nigerian Broadcasting Act regulation have continued to receive condemnations and rejection. A mass communication expert, Prof Lai Oso, of the Lagos State University tells GRACE EDEMA that the government must allow the media to function as the watchdog of societyGoing by some of the provisions of the bill, I think it is overkill.

The man who proposed that bill, one Olusegun Odebunmi, the Nigerian mass media must expose him for who he is, where is he coming from, what is his history? These are some of the things.

That is why I am saying that whether something is right or wrong, fake news or so, it is because of the complexity we have in Nigeria. What is wrong in one part of the country is different from what is right in another part of the country, because of what they are going through and their experience. What I can say is that the government’s communication strategy is not right; they are not getting their act right. There is a gap and some people are feeling that gap, especially in social media.

The government will always find reasons to justify its actions. I’m sure many Nigerians are not too pleased with what we see on many social media platforms. But banning Twitter is not just an extreme case, it is a situation that shows much ignorance of how technology has totally changed the communication landscape all over the world.

It is very difficult to look at individual Nigerians, because if you pick the next person, he/she is likely to behave like that. We should build our institutions so that one individual does not come to destroy the whole edifice. Every government must have a strategy and this government has no communication strategy. There is no communication strategy and policy.

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