NBC Board Disagrees With Lai Mohammed, Rejects Amended NBC Code
The Board of the National Broadcasting Commission has kicked against the amendments to the sixth edition of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code.
He explained that the management of the commission did not undertake a proper consultation before making the amendments to the code.The former minister decried that the amendments to the code were capable of destroying investments in the nation’s broadcast sector. The NBC board chairman, however, stressed that the noble observation of the President was misunderstood by the minister.
The National Broadcasting Commission is established by law and section 2 of the NBC Act empowers the Commission to establish and disseminate a Nigeria Broadcasting Code which sets standards for the quality and content of broadcast materials. This noble observation of Mr President was unfortunately misunderstood by the Hon. Minister of Information. Instead of studying and following the Law, relevant rules and regulations, and direct the appropriate authorities as stipulated by the Law to act on, he erroneously embarked on the review alone.
The Director overseeing the office of the DG of the NBC has equally made insinuations that the Board endorsed the amendments culminating in its ‘public presentation’ on 26th March 2020 at the L’eola Hotel in Lagos. Nothing can be farther from the truth. The “public presentation” was actually attended by serving directors in the NBC, one former DG of the NBC, a member representing the Ministry of Information and only four selected stakeholders.
The Board convened a meeting which included the Director overseeing the office of the DG in attendance. The unanimous decision was to issue a press release inviting inputs from various stakeholders. It became clear to the Board that even though the Director overseeing the DG’s office subscribed to the unanimous decision of the Board, he was inclined to sabotaging the press release for obvious reasons.
As a Board, we have received and taken our time to compile the responses of numerous stakeholders which include our Nobel Laurette, Activists, Legal Practitioners, Broadcasters, Investors, BON, Content Creators, Copyright experts and professional organisations. Most of them have adduced reasonable reasons against the proposed amendment.
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