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IBB condemns hate speech bill

Muhammad A. Aliyu
By Muhammad A. Aliyu
Published: November 28, 2019
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Former military president Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB)
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Former military President, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, has condemned the controversial hate speech bill.

IBB said nobody can deny Nigerians freedom of speech and described the bill as an “eye service” by the sponsor, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi.

Babangida spoke in his Minna Uphill residence when he received visiting National President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Chief Christopher Isiguzo.

He said there was no basis for the bill because no one can deny Nigerians their fundamental rights.

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“I am surprised that this bill has resurfaced. There is no basis for this now. We are developing; we should be allowed to develop. If we make mistakes people can be cautioned. If somebody goes off you have the right to call him to say, ‘no, we don’t want this.’

“Unless people are able to express themselves, those in government or in authority will not know what is happening in the country,” he said.

Babangida said the death penalty prescribed in the bill was “crude and wicked.”

“If somebody makes hate speech, put him in the gallows and not shoot him. It is crude and out of tune with the 21st-century reality. It could have happened, maybe some 300 years ago, but not now,” he said.

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In conclusion, the former head of state promised to join the NUJ and other stakeholders in protesting against the passage of the bill.

He said: “I am with you on this. I will also talk to those of us who could be in a position to bring sanity to bear on some of these things.

“if we had their type of media, I think they should be jailing you all by now.

“But today, the country is better for it”

It can be recalled that protesters stormed the National Assembly on Wednesday to demand cancellation of the bill introduced alongside Social Media Bill.

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Muhammad Ameer Aliyu, is a prolific journalist who joined Okay Nigeria in 2015 with the aim staying committed to bringing more positive growth to the digital news platform. He is the Senior Editor at Okay Nigeria.
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