The Executive Director of the International Press Centre, Nigeria, Lanre Arogundade, has described the threat by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, to sanction the British Broadcasting Corporation and TrustTv, over the airing of a BBC Africa Eye documentary, as flawed and tyrannical.
“The same government has tried the news organisations and the same government has found them guilty. So, essentially, the Minister of Information is the accuser, the prosecutor, and the judge in his own case. It is just arrant nonsense.
“You have not done that, you have not charged them to court, you have not gone to the legislature; the National Assembly which has committees to report.
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