Saraki Promises Speedy Passage Of Anti-Hate Speech, Anti-Jungle Justice Bills
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Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has promised the speedy passage of the Anti-hate speech and the Anti- Jungle Justice bill, once the House resumes plenary in September.

Senator Saraki made the promise in a statement released by his media aide Yusuf Olaniyonu.

“As the 8th Senate lays out its agenda for the next 22-months, President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has highlighted that due to the rising tensions in the polity, the passage of Bills to mitigate against hate speech and jungle justice will comprise a major part of the Senate’s social impact agenda when it resumes in September.”
In another statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Yusuph Olaniyonu, Saraki stated that the Senate is ready to give the Hate Speech Bill accelerated consideration when it is presented by the Executive.

“At this point in time, when people are heating up the political and social space with their utterances, the Hate Speech Bill will help to mitigate against verbal attacks or expressions against individuals or groups on the basis of ethnicity, religion, and even gender.
“This will help to send a clear message with accompanying punitive measures to those negative elements in our society that are fond of distasteful comments that hurt, offend and provoke retaliation.”
The Senate President also stated that the Anti-Jungle Justice Bill (SB. 109), which is sponsored by Senator Dino Melaye, (APC-Kogi), will also help to curtail, protect and prohibit Nigerians across the country from meting out extra-judicial justice to perceived offenders without recourse to statutory legal channels.

“There have been many cases of extrajudicial executions across the nation. We all remember the “Aluu Four” incident, and several other notorious cases of phone and food thieves being set ablaze.
We cannot have a situation where people feel that they can take the law into their hands. Therefore, we must put in place careful stopgaps and penal measures to protect the sanctity of our communities.”
The Senate President, Bukola Saraki also stated that the Committee on Judiciary and the Rules and Business Committees of the Senate would work to ensure that Anti-Jungle Justice Bill is quickly passed and sent to the House of Representatives for concurrence.

Saraki promises passage of anti-jungle justice bill
Senator Bukola Saraki promises passage of anti-jungle justice bill
Following the rate at which hate speeches flood various media platforms across the country, the Federal Government recently proposed the regulation of social media in Nigeria.

To achieve this, the National Council on Information (NCI) proposed that information managers at all state levels should open a website to counter reports of any misinformation posted on social media as quickly as the hate speeches, misinformation and fake news are posted.

The council also recommended immediate “killing” of whatever postings on social media assumed or presumed to be hate speeches or fake news or
misinformation by the information managers in various states.