Socio-Econimic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari to order Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed and National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to urgently withdraw the ‘last warning’ and threat to revoke licences and shut broadcast stations over post-election coverage.
It threatened legal action to compel the current administration to comply with the request in public interest.
The NBC had, last week, threatened to revoke the licences of broadcast stations and shut them down if they continue to allow “unpatriotic individuals on their platforms to make utterances that are subversive, hateful, inciting in the post-2023 presidential election.”
But in a letter dated yesterday and signed by deputy director, Kolawole Oluwadare, SERAP said the threat, if not immediately withdrawn, would limit freedom of expression and ability of broadcast stations to cover important…
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