on Friday hinted about its plan to appeal against the court judgement nullifying its powers to fine broadcast stations for breaching its broadcasting codes.
Suggesting that his agency had yet to be served the judgement to be certain about its next line of action, Mr Ilelah said, “global best practice and the ethics of the legal profession”, which it says prevents parties to a from commenting freely “on a judgement it has not seen and read”.The Federal High Court in Abuja handed down the order of perpetual injunction in a judgement on Wednesday, cancelling NBC’s powers to impose a fine on broadcast stations.
Mr Omotosho said the court would not sit idle and watch a body imposing fine arbitrarily without recourse to the law.He said the commission did not comply with the law when it sat as a complainant and, at the same time, the court and the judge on its own matter. The judgement results from a suit filed in 2021 by the Media Rights Agenda, a not-for-profit organisation concerned with promoting press freedom and access to information.
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