A lawyer, Chief Wole Olanipekun , has advised the National Assembly to immediately withdraw the Hate Speech Bill that has generated bad blood among Nigerians, declaring it as contradicting the principles of fundamental human rights and tantamount to pursuing a policy that is self serving.
Olanipekun made the scathing remarks against the much touted bill on Saturday in Ikere Ekiti, Ekiti State, during his annual scholarship awards for over 100 indigent but brilliant Nigerian students through the Wole Olanipekun Foundation. “Let me advise the National Assembly to be more productive . Let us stop chasing vanity, and things that are counter productive. To me as a lawyer, as an elder, this bill will be counter productive. The bill will bring disunity even among family members. We should not bring disunity. Wife and husband disagree, and if such happens, will you report your spouse for hate speech?.
He charged the beneficiaries of the scholarship scheme to imbibe the culture of role modelling by patterning their lives after a successful person in the society and work towards surpassing him to make their future great.
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