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In a new bill by the Senate, any person found guilty of any form of hate speech that results in the death of another person shall die by hanging upon conviction.

The hate speech bill, which has passed second reading in the senate, has generated a lot of opinions since the pubic got to know about it . Well, here are 5 things you should know about it.

1. Who sponsored the bill?
The spokesman of the upper chamber, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi (APC, Niger) did.

2.Why he sponsored the bill
People who cause the death of another through hate speech should also be killed, and according to him ,“after all, our present law says if you do anything that results in the death of another person and it is proven beyond reasonable doubt that you caused the death of that person, the penalty is death by hanging.” The Senate spokesperson said the penalty is only for those who are found guilty of any form of hate speech that results in the death of another person after judicial processes in a Federal High Court.

3.Those who will oppose the bill?
The Senate says “People who may be having some opposing views about it definitely are not in the category of people who have lost dear ones and family or livelihood to similar circumstances. If they are, I think they will be saying how I wish this was in place before this thing happened to me.”

4.What the bill notes
“A person who uses, publishes, presents, produces, plays, provides, distributes and/or directs the performance of any material, written and/or visual, which is threatening, abusive or insulting or involves the use of threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, commits an offence, if such person intends thereby to stir up ethnic hatred, or having regard to all the circumstances, ethnic hatred is likely to be stirred up against any person or person from such an ethnic group in Nigeria.”

5.What journalists are saying
In a statement on Friday, the NUJ National Secretary, Shuaibu Leman, said “It is instructive to note that citizens are entitled to free speech even if they hold offensive and hurtful opinions. We also cannot forget that people have the right to be biased, even offensive in their speech even if journalism is different and we have to be aware of this.”

“It is therefore, our considered opinion that it is pertinent to avoid such pitfalls in our bid to come up with legislation to curtail the excesses of citizens,”

Source: http://www.reporter247.org/2018/03/hate-speech-5-important-things-you.html

... Do u think Bubu will assent to it.. before he became the President hate speeches didn't cease from his mouth

You can kill all of us, don’t just bother passing the bill

the propensity for manipulation & misinterpretation is too much.


hate speech must be reduced but we must also be careful not to create another monster.

“A person who uses, publishes, presents, produces, plays, provides, distributes and/or directs the performance of any material, written and/or visual, which is threatening, abusive or insulting or involves the use of threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, commits an offence, if such person intends thereby to stir up ethnic hatred, or having regard to all the circumstances, ethnic hatred is likely to be stirred up against any person or person from such an ethnic group in Nigeria.”

Which means that gangster rappers like Snoop Dog, 50 Cents, Eminem who regularly release, inciting, hateful, insulting, mysoginist, crime inducing, sexual and somewhat racial content in their music might face long periods in jail if they come to Nigeria to perform?

I would have loved to ask the senator if what The Arewa youths did by giving ultimatum to Igbos living in the north was hate speech?


Also if Buhari threatening that dogs and baboons would be soaked in blood should he lose an election was hate speech?

Nairalander una dey hear?



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They should stop deceiving their self, first they were planning to monitor social media to convict anyone who speaks ill of the government, now they (apc) wants to make it a law.
Bubu is an old tyrant and a religious bigot. This bill will only be active in the southern Nigeria.

They should stop deceiving their self, first they were planning to monitor social media to convict anyone who speaks ill of the government, now they (apc) wants to make it a law.
Bubu is an old tyrant and a religious bigot. This bill will only be active in the southern Nigeria.
Good morning.

If u justry to blame the government for d current predicament we are in now........hate speech

We all know the purpose of this bill is hound political opponent and tame the masses from dissenting against the government of the day.


We also know that the Head quarters and source of hate speeches is from the mosques. After the usual Friday jumat, the Islamic adherents up north usually gets bloody.

This is a fact.

Ok

They want to gag us

Chanting death to the kaffirs should be added as hate speech...so whenever some numbskull does something in another country the chanters will not start theirs in solidarity here in Nigeria.

OK

Bossontop:

If u justry to blame the government for d current predicament we are in now........hate speech

The cartoon got me rolling on the floor.

where are we going in this country. ..everyone has the right to free speech n as humans they forget we must be bias attimes....one thing is to insert me to violence and the other thing is for me to decide if am to do or not....pass the peace corp bill instead..

wheres the bill proscribing fulani herders carrying guns? useless apc senate

I like the bill.

Nigeria desperately needs such.

But the bill is not balanced as it focuses on only ethnicity. The bill should be reviewed to include the religion too, so that those extremists telling their followers to kill people of other religion should be brought to book too.

Hate speech is not free speech!

Tinubu has killed us all

Okay

Stupidity.

Today when anything can be termed hate speech, the senator is very mad and those trying to promote this nonsense.

no one gives a fuçking fuçk about this fuçking boring topic

All in bid to silence Nigerians from speaking out against current mis-governance and the evil men running the country.

gidgiddy:


Which means that gangster rappers like Snoop Dog, 50 Cents, Eminem who regularly release, inciting, hateful, insulting, mysoginist, crime inducing, sexual and somewhat racial content in their music might face long periods in jail if they come to Nigeria to perfom?

death by hanging actually.

Say what you want to say, when they take you to court, tell them you've decamped to APC SHIKENA

Omeokachie:
I would have loved to ask the senator if what The Arewa youths did by giving ultimatum to Igbos living in the north was hate speech?


Also if Buhari threatening that dogs and baboons would be soaked in blood should he lose an election was hate speech?

He'll say those speeches were made before the bill becomes law.

They always think themselves smart all thanks to the foolish southern politicians and lawmakers in the NASS.

Nice bill but I think the Judgement of this bill should begin with PMB...

1. The blood and bamboo speech is more than a hate speech

2. His silence despite the killings of Herdsmen almost all over the land is a sign of hate speech

Let The Judgement begin from ASO rock and we will take it Serious

davidbanner:
... Do u think Bubu will assent to it.. before he became the President hate speeches didn't cease from his mouth

Bubu himself is the grandfather of hate speech!

Means Buhari would as be persecuted because he said HIS WIFE BELONG TO THE KITCHEN AND BEDROOM is hate speech. Hang PMB let's know your guys are serious.