SERAP Gives Buhari-led Government 24 Hours To Withdraw NBC Order On Reporting Of Terrorist Attacks | Sahara Reporters

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari urging him to use his leadership position “to urgently instruct Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, and the National Broadcasting Commission to withdraw the directive containing a gag order banning journalists and broadcast stations from reporting details of terrorist attacks and victims across the country.

Reporting on the growing violence and killings in many parts of the country is a matter of public interest. The NBC directive to journalists and broadcast stations to stop reporting these cases, coupled with the possibility of fines and other punishment, would have a disproportionate chilling effect on the work of those seeking to hold the government accountable to the public.

The use of these words and phrases by the NBC, given their opaque and ambiguous meaning, leaves open the possibility for application beyond unequivocal incitement to hatred, hostility, or violence. Such words and phrases may function to interpret legitimate reporting by broadcast stations, journalists, and other Nigerians as unlawful.

Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights establishes the right to freedom of opinion without interference. Article 19 establishes Nigeria’s obligations to respect and ensure this right, which includes the freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, and through any media of one’s choice.

Since article 19 promotes so clearly a right to information of all kinds, this indicates that your government bears the burden of justifying any restriction on reporting of cases of violence and killings, and withholding of such information as an exception to that right.

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SERAPNigeria That is what you get when you have a terrorist government. The media should stop showing their terrorist activities so the people and the world won't see or know what is happening. Then they kill everybody. It won't work for them. FreeMaziNnamdiKanuNow

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