A federal high court sitting in Lagos has set aside the fines imposed on Trust Television, MultiChoice Nigeria Limited, TelCom...
November 17, 2024 9:25 pmMultiChoice Nigeria LimitedIn a 50-minute documentary titled ‘The Bandit Warlords of Zamfara’, the BBC Africa Eye provided insight into the mindset of bandit kingpins, the booming kidnap-for-ransom industry, and how the ethnic conflict between Hausa and Fulani groups may have exacerbated the security crisis in Zamfara state.
However, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project and Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development filed a lawsuit markedormer President Muhammadu Buhari; former minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed and the NBC. “A declaration is, hereby, made that the act of the defendants imposing a fine of five million naira each on the independent media houses is unlawful, inconsistent with, and amounts to a breach of the principles of legality, necessity, proportionality and therefore a violation of the rights to freedom of expression, access to information, and media freedom,” the court held.
“A declaration is, hereby, made that the provisions of the National Broadcasting Commission Act and the Nigeria Broadcasting Code which are arbitrarily being used by the defendants to sanction, harass, intimidate and restrict the independent media houses are inconsistent and incompatible with sections 36, 39 and 22 of the Nigerian Constitution, Article 9 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and are null...
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