Christistruth03:
Hate speech and Fake News are not Press Freedom!!!

EXOUSIAng:
If this people understand the level to which fake news and hate speech has destroyed this country hmmmm.
The entire Obidient movement was built on fake news, hate speech etc tho.

It's only in Nigeria that people feel they can say whatever they like without consequences,

Nnamdi Kanu had never met Buhari before yet he told them how his ear had changed ( This was when Buhari return after his ear surgery in UK), said he was dead and we had Jubril, someone who has never met Buhari aside pictures and videos, and these same set of people believed and swore with their lives that it was true, the mind of an average Obidient is weak, they are constantly looking for something to blame their situation on, this gave Nnamdi, Obi and now Ekpa the room to mess with them.....

Dafresh:

What is hate speech?

Christistruth03:
Hate speech and Fake News are not Press Freedom!!!

EXOUSIAng:
It is intimidation of the media because now Arise won't be able to do their dirty work anymore.

jude79:
Labour Party Spokesman Slams NBC Over Letter to Arise TV, Makes Demands
Photo of Daniel Daniel Daniel Daniel Follow on TwitterOctober 7, 2023 3 minutes read


The spokesman for the Labour Party (LP) Presidential Campaign Council, Kenneth Okonkwo, has described the letter from the National Broadcasting Service (NBC) to Arise Television as an outright infringement of his fundamental human rights.

POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Okonkwo, in a statement on Saturday, said the letter was an attempt to erode his right to freely hold thoughts, which he expressed while a guest on the morning show of the television.

He said the import of the letter, which was to intimidate him and the television house, was baseless.

Okonkwo said the NBC Director-General, Balarabe Shehu Ilelah, ill-advisedly mentioned his name in his letter as making an unguarded utterance simply because he confirmed that the Chicago State University certificate, which Bola Ahmed Tinubu (BAT) submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), was forged.

He said this was so because the university had expressly stated that the certificate did not come from them, which is the condition necessary to prove forgery.

Okonkwo said the NBC has no power to fine or sanction any media house and that intimidating or manipulating the media house is a form of sanction and is unlawful.

The full statement reads:

KENNETH OKONKWO REPLIES NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMMISSION

OPEN LETTER TO MR BALARABE SHEHU ILELAH, DG NATIONAL BROADCASTING CORPORATION (NBC)

I read the letter written by Mr Balarabe Shehu Ilelah, DG of NBC, and wish to state as follows:

1. I sympathize with him in this unfortunate journey intended to please his employers, but state that he would have been more wise and circumspect in going about it.

2. Maybe he is not aware that the Court has decided that NBC has no power to fine or sanction any media house. Intimidating or manipulating the media house is a form of sanction and is unlawful.

3. He ill-advisedly mentioned my name in his letter as making an unguarded utterance simply because I confirmed that the Chicago State University certificate, which BAT submitted to INEC, was forged, for the simple reason that the University has expressly stated that the certificate did not come from them, which is the condition necessary to prove forgery.

4. This statement is an outright infringement on my fundamental human rights as enshrined in Sections 38 and 39, which provide that “every person shall be entitled to freedom of thought…; every person shall be entitled to freedom of expression, including freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart ideas and information, ideas and information without interference”.

5. These rights are superior to the NBC Statute which the DG incorrectly stated and his mentioning my name in his letter is an attempt to rudely interfere with my divinely and constitutionally guaranteed rights and he should desist henceforth from further mentioning my name in any letter or communication whatsoever. I remind him that, by law, any infringement on the fundamental human rights of Nigerians attracts punishment of damages.

6. The Constitution also protects the right of the media in Section 22 to be free to uphold the responsibility and accountability of the Government to the people. Again the DG does not have the right to deny Arise TV their right to hold the government accountable to the people.

7. It’s unfortunate that when all media houses condemned Mmesoma for forging her Jamb certificate, and rightly too, without being convicted by a court, simply because JAMB disowned her certificate, and rightly too, the DG didn’t write to any TV station or mention the name of any guest on TV who condemned such forgery. Now that the certificate of the President is disowned by the University that purportedly issued it, the DG has suddenly found his mouth to mention the names of the people who condemned such forgery of the certificate after the university disowned it and even wrote the media house to threaten it.

8. The only unguarded utterance here is the ill-advised letter written by the DG to Arise TV and this must stop. I did not make my name by forging my certificates, I made my name by investing the talent of acting God has deposited in me to create a new movie industry called Nollywood which started with the movie Living in Bondage, and which pleased God to make me the first Actor of the industry which is employing millions of Nigerian Youths. I have since improved to become a Lawyer and advocate for a New Nigeria, which preceded this new political dispensation.

9. If your letter is an attempt at intimidating me not to say the truth, you have failed because I have already decided to fight for a new Nigeria based on the truth, realizing that truth is the only thing that brings genuine and permanent solutions to a nation’s problem. It is letters like your own that have prompted foreign entities to wrongly ascribe forgery as a Nigerian thing. Please desist from such letters.

10. Sir, I humbly take exception to your using my name disrespectfully and demand an apology from you. I will restrict myself and be as civil as possible in this writing because this is the first time you are embarking on this misadventure. I will certainly not be this civil next time if this attitude continues.

Accept my best regards and thank you for your anticipated cooperation.

Sincerely,
Kenneth Okonkwo Esq.

gabbytabby:
Revised psychology aggressive bullies.

jude79:



Hate speech is when Nigerians point out the humongous corruption going on in APC's government

jude79:



Fake news that APC used in ousting PDP against CSU's deposition that the particular document submitted to inec is not from them or the fact that the man at the centre of the controversy never collected his original certificate.

Dafresh:

What is hate speech?

jude79:



The dirty work of arise tv is interviewing the oppositions media representatives of other parties, but it is not dirty work when APC media representatives are interviewed by same arise tv, meanwhile all the tribalistic ethnically and religiously, bigoted hate speech were made by APC rep, but we were told to forget it and to accept it as politics, yet oppositions can't be allowed to say the truth

EXOUSIAng:

This is not about the personalities interviewed.
You go on air and lay accusations without proof.
I listen to naijainfo everyday and you will notice that the hosts will never allow you come on air to insult or lay accusations. It is the responsibility of the station to caution the people they are interviewing, As a matter of fact AriseTv actually leads them on.

So oga this is not about the personalities who are interviewed its about the content of the interview, you can't go on air to say the president forged his certificate until it has been confirmed by a court of law, same way you can't call a man who stole from you a thief until proven guilty in court, you may know he is a thief but you can say so.
It's not really about what you think you know, it's about what's obtainable in the law.