Naijanewsgist00:
“If the death by hanging hate speech law was in place during Jonathan’s administration, do you think Lai Mohammed would be alive today?”- Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe asks

Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe has joined other Nigerians to reject the death by hanging Hate Speech bill that has passed first reading in the Senate.

Speaking on Channels TV, Senator Abaribe wondered if the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, would be alive if the law was enacted during the Goodluck Jonathan administration.



According to Abaribe, Lai Mohammed said so many unprintable things about Jonathan when he was still President and Lai Mohammed’s right to express his opinion was not trampled upon.

When asked to comment on the controversial bill, Senate Abaribe responded

In forming my thoughts, I would want to read out some things for you just to put it in context.

”A government that is unwilling to take responsibility for anything should not be counted upon. A government has repsonsibility to protect its citizens and not engage in blame game. Now this President has finally owned up to his globally acknowledged incompetence. Never in the history of any nation has incompetence and cluelessnes been exhibited by any leader as being exhibited today in this government. This government is running the country aground with a combination of incompetence and corruption. The fact of this government(sic) has nothing to do with ethnicity but a manifestation of incompetence, cluelessness and inferiority complex.

These were the words of Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information between 2012 and 2014. I bet you that anybody who says this today, they would say it is hate speech. They would say you have called the president incompetent and they will jail you. That is why when you say you have the need to circumscribe people’s rights, you should also remember the past. If a hate speech bill which advocates death by hanging was in place between 2012 and 2014 when Lai Mohammed was making these acerbic statements against the Jonathan administration, do you think he will be alive today?

The right to hold an opinion, make an opinion, is an inalienable right of every citizen of Nigeria and when somebody who used to use this, shows up today and now says no you can’t do it for what he did in the past, that tells you that it’s nothing but intolerance and driving us towards an authoritarian government and I am saying that every Nigerian should wake up to fact that they don’t mean well for us” he said

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Annie939:
what do you expect from a failed government and an absentee president when you see them you will definitely know them

contigiency:
Stupid question. Is it Lai Muhammad that is proposing this bill? Or did anybody spread hate speech more than PDP before 2015 election? I hope they are not thinking that we have forgotten the wicked documentaries they used AIT to run against buhari and Tinubu for several months before that election.

Can you compare the gravity of the statements Abaribe read above to what Fayose, FFK, Reno omokiri and others made against buhari and Tinubu before, during and after 2015 election? Even to the extent of carrying falsehood that buhari had died. While many of them were openly confessing their wish for the man to die.

contigiency:
Stupid question. Is it Lai Muhammad that is proposing this bill? Or did anybody spread hate speech more than PDP before 2015 election? I hope they are not thinking that we have forgotten the wicked documentaries they used AIT to run against buhari and Tinubu for several months before that election.

Can you compare the gravity of the statements Abaribe read above to what Fayose, FFK, Reno omokiri and others made against buhari and Tinubu before, during and after 2015 election? Even to the extent of carrying falsehood that buhari had died. While many of them were openly confessing their wish for the man to die.

Naijanewsgist00:
“If the death by hanging hate speech law was in place during Jonathan’s administration, do you think Lai Mohammed would be alive today?”- Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe asks

Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe has joined other Nigerians to reject the death by hanging Hate Speech bill that has passed first reading in the Senate.

Speaking on Channels TV, Senator Abaribe wondered if the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, would be alive if the law was enacted during the Goodluck Jonathan administration.



According to Abaribe, Lai Mohammed said so many unprintable things about Jonathan when he was still President and Lai Mohammed’s right to express his opinion was not trampled upon.

When asked to comment on the controversial bill, Senate Abaribe responded

In forming my thoughts, I would want to read out some things for you just to put it in context.

”A government that is unwilling to take responsibility for anything should not be counted upon. A government has repsonsibility to protect its citizens and not engage in blame game. Now this President has finally owned up to his globally acknowledged incompetence. Never in the history of any nation has incompetence and cluelessnes been exhibited by any leader as being exhibited today in this government. This government is running the country aground with a combination of incompetence and corruption. The fact of this government(sic) has nothing to do with ethnicity but a manifestation of incompetence, cluelessness and inferiority complex.

These were the words of Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information between 2012 and 2014. I bet you that anybody who says this today, they would say it is hate speech. They would say you have called the president incompetent and they will jail you. That is why when you say you have the need to circumscribe people’s rights, you should also remember the past. If a hate speech bill which advocates death by hanging was in place between 2012 and 2014 when Lai Mohammed was making these acerbic statements against the Jonathan administration, do you think he will be alive today?

The right to hold an opinion, make an opinion, is an inalienable right of every citizen of Nigeria and when somebody who used to use this, shows up today and now says no you can’t do it for what he did in the past, that tells you that it’s nothing but intolerance and driving us towards an authoritarian government and I am saying that every Nigerian should wake up to fact that they don’t mean well for us” he said

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contigiency:
Stupid question. Is it Lai Muhammad that is proposing this bill? Or did anybody spread hate speech more than PDP before 2015 election? I hope they are not thinking that we have forgotten the wicked documentaries they used AIT to run against buhari and Tinubu for several months before that election.

Can you compare the gravity of the statements Abaribe read above to what Fayose, FFK, Reno omokiri and others made against buhari and Tinubu before, during and after 2015 election? Even to the extent of carrying falsehood that buhari had died. While many of them were openly confessing their wish for the man to die.

Naijanewsgist00:
“If the death by hanging hate speech law was in place during Jonathan’s administration, do you think Lai Mohammed would be alive today?”- Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe asks

Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe has joined other Nigerians to reject the death by hanging Hate Speech bill that has passed first reading in the Senate.




According to Abaribe, Lai Mohammed said so many unprintable things about Jonathan when he was still President and Lai Mohammed’s right to express his opinion was not trampled upon.

When asked to comment on the controversial bill, Senate Abaribe responded

In forming my thoughts, I would want to read out some things for you just to put it in context.

”A government that is unwilling to take responsibility for anything should not be counted upon.

A government has repsonsibility to protect its citizens and not engage in blame game.

Now this President has finally owned up to his globally acknowledged incompetence. Never in the history of any nation has incompetence and cluelessnes been exhibited by any leader as being exhibited today in this government.

This government is running the country aground with a combination of incompetence and corruption. The fact of this government(sic) has nothing to do with ethnicity but a manifestation of incompetence, cluelessness and inferiority complex.

These were the words of Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information between 2012 and 2014. I bet you that anybody who says this today, they would say it is hate speech.

They would say you have called the president incompetent and they will jail you. That is why when you say you have the need to circumscribe people’s rights, you should also remember the past.

If a hate speech bill which advocates death by hanging was in place between 2012 and 2014 when Lai Mohammed was making these acerbic statements against the Jonathan administration, do you think he will be alive today?

The right to hold an opinion, make an opinion, is an inalienable right of every citizen of Nigeria and when somebody who used to use this, shows up today and now says no you can’t do it for what he did in the past, that tells you that it’s nothing but intolerance and driving us towards an authoritarian government and I am saying that every Nigerian should wake up to fact that they don’t mean well for us” he said

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I never knew we still have a senator who could still speak up for the masses in this current crop of corrupt and rubber stamped HoRs

Abaribe, may history be forever kind to you!!! In the face of standing by the truth, may you NEVER fail or fall. Amen!!!

Back to the issue, forget Lai Mohammed, so many of them will not even be alive!!!

They are only making these laws for the masses!!!

The elites\politicians disobeys but what happens Even when the laws are clearly spelt out Nothing happens to them

We can keep living in denial, the truth is that there are some set of people ABOVE the law!!!

That's why every reasonable Nigerian will fight against this evil agenda!!!

Left for me, the only law they should be passing is they, collecting the same minimum wage as every Nigerian!!!

People that partially ran parallel government now wants to make one stupid law ko jò!!!

MrColdsweat:
Nigerians are too docile and carefree to care about the national assembly.


buhari will bully the legislators to amend the constitution on his behalf.

Dedetwo:


You reason like those Nigerians who do not deserve a pint of oxygen. As a minister of information, what has Lai Muhammad said or done to discourage this crap gaining traction under the government he serves?

MetaPhysical:
Where is the Bill being read, is it in Ministry of Information or in Senate? Wetin concern Abaribe with Information? He should defeat the Bill in Senate and stop wailing.

Abi no be dis guy bail Kanu ni? This is Kanu surety. He should be directed to produce the jew in court.