₦airaland Forum

hercules07: What you should argue for is the government to seek the co-operation of those who are sincere, our newspapers have a role to play by not glorifying the acts of BH, but, GEJ can not do it by threats, it does not work, civilized behaviour requires that the government rises above BH, there are better ways to handle these things, how anybody can be in favour of giving blanket powers to those in position of authority who have shown over and over again that they can not be trusted with basic powers is beyond me.

Deep Sight: ^^^ The point is that there is some necessary unpleasantness in every situation of emergency powers. Go look at the Homeland Security Act in the USA, there are many unpleasant but necessary things there.

Desperate situations demand desperate solutions, this is well known.

Deep Sight: Please remember that the accused still have to stand before a court and be tried and found to actually have aided terrorism.

Deep Sight: Quite inevitable in situations such as this.

Deep Sight: ^^^ Uyi made an important distinction between describing an event and actively inciting, etc, nevertheless you should see and respond to my explanation above on the conflict between civic responsibility and journalistic codes on such matters.

I should also ask you if you were a Journalist who, by reason of being invited for an interview with shekau, knew his location, what would you do with that information? Nothing?

Uyi Iredia: The fear of CAN and people like eGuerilla is that the phrase 'the dissemination of terrorist information' is vague and could be used to clamp down media reports of terrorist activities. Not so. Let's look at a part of the subsection.

". . . incitement to commit a terrorist act through the internet, or any electronic means or through the use of printed materials or through the dissemination of terrorist information; . . ."

The highlighted phrase defines that such disseminated information must be one that INCITES terrorist act. Need I precent what incite means ? Are media reports of BH an incitement (or a description) ?

naptu2: Another example (question that was asked). Shekau makes a new video and posts it on youtube. Someone posts that video on nairaland. Are Seun, nairaland and the nairalander guilty of disseminating terrorist information (of course Shekau will be inciting violence in the video)?

officially brings the activities of both groups within the purview of the Terrorism Prevention Act and any persons associated with the two groups can now be legally prosecuted and sentenced to penalties specified in the Act.

“The proscription order warns the general public that any person participating in any form of activities involving or concerning the collective intentions of the said groups will be violating the provisions of the Terrorism Prevention Act.

“Section 5 (1) of the act prescribes a term of imprisonment of not less than 20 years for any person who knowingly, in any manner, directly or indirectly, solicits or renders support for the commission of an act of terrorism or to a terrorist group.

“For the purposes of subsection (1) of the section, “support” include:

(a) incitement to commit a terrorist act through the internet, or any electronic means or through the use of printed materials or through the dissemination of terrorist information;

(b) receipt or provision of material assistance, weapons including biological, chemical or nuclear weapons, explosives, training, transportation, false documentation or identification to terrorists or terrorist groups;

(c) receipt or provision of information or moral assistance, including invitation to adhere to a terrorist or terrorist group;

(d) entering or remaining in a country for the benefit of, or at the direction of or in association with a terrorist group; or

(e) the provision of, or making available, such financial or other related services prohibited under this Act or as may be prescribed by regulations made pursuant to this Act.”

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