anti hate speech bill which has passed second readingBut Olasope, while speaking to journalists on the sidelines of special roundtable discourse themed, “Criminalising Hate Speech: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly”, organised by the Christian Lawyers Fellowship of Nigeria , Ibadan Chapter, added that the national body of NBA should have set up a committee to review the bill.
Olasope said, “We don’t need a particular law on hate speech because it will run contrary to Section 39 of the 1999 Constitution. Concerning defamation, we already have laws here and there, so why are we talking about this? Section 24 of the Cybercrime Law also talks about when you publish offensive things about people. We do not have to criminalise and say that is hate speech law. Our democracy should continue to grow and not gagged.
“The Nigerian Guild of Editors and Nigerian Union of Journalists have come out separately to condemn the bill and that it is a way to gag the press.
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