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erian Bar Association, senior lawyers and human rights groups on Tuesday took a swipe at the Federal Government for raising the fine for hate speech from N500,000 to N5m.
He stated that the new code included,“the provision raising the fine for hate speech from N500,000 to N5m.” Mohammed also noted the law prohibiting backlog of advertising debts would promote sustainability for the station owners and producers of content.Recall that a senator from Niger State, Sabi Abdullahi, last year presented a bill seeking death penalty for hate speech.
Nine months after the controversy generated by the hate speech bill died down, the NBA, two SANs and human rights groups on Tuesday faulted the Federal Government for hiking the fine for it.The NBA described the astronomical increase in the hate speech fine in the newly introduced broadcasting code as an unconstitutional attempt to gag the press.
The SAN also doubted whether the fine could be enforced or not since it was imposed by a code made by the minister and not by the National Assembly, which is the body with the constitutional powers to make laws. “The code of conduct for broadcasters, as the name suggests, is just a directive to broadcasters on what to do and what not to do. It is persuasive; but to go as far as putting a fine of N5m for hate speech, it means they are turning a code into a law and into a provision of the constitution.
The IPC director, therefore, stated that it was wrong of the government to arbitrarily increase the fine for hate speech by 10 times.
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