dcast Code and hiking the fine for hate speech from N500,000 to N5m.
The NBC had threatened that any TV or radio station that allows elected officials to be insulted on its platform would be fined N5m or shut down. The lawyer argued that “abusing” or “insulting” the government cannot be criminalised in a democracy. The lawyer, therefore, prayed the court to make “a declaration that broadcast stations in Nigeria, broadcasters, guests and callers during radio and television programmes are entitled to a fair trial before a court of competent jurisdiction as guaranteed by Section 36 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 and Article 7 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights Act, Cap. A9 L.F.N.
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