The National Broadcasting Commission on Wednesday imposed a five million naira fine on Multichoice Nigeria Limited, owners of DSTV and Trust TV for broadcasting documentaries it said “glorified the activities of bandits and undermines national security in Nigeria.”

NTA-Startimes Limited and TelcCom Satellite Limited (TSTV) were also fined five million naira each.

“The National Broadcasting Commission, today, August 3, 2022, imposed a Five Million Naira (N5,000,000.00) sanction, each, on Multichoice Nigeria Limited, owners of DSTV, TelCom Satellite Limited (TSTV); NTA- Startimes Limited; for the carriage of the documentary by the BBC AFRICA EYE titled, “BANDITS WARLORDS OF ZAMFARA” which glorified the activities of Bandits and undermines National Security in Nigeria,” a statement signed by NBC Director-General, Balarabe Shehu Ilelah, said.

“Trust-TV Network Limited was also fined Five Million Naira (N5,000,000.00) for its documentary titled: ‘NIGERIA’S BANDITRY-THE INSIDE STORY’

“While appreciating the need of educating, informing, and enlightening the public on issues bordering on developments and happenings within and outside the Country, the Commission wishes to seize this opportunity to advise broadcasters to be circumspect and deliberate in the choice and carriage of contents deleterious to Nigeria’s National security.

“Consequently, the airing and carriage of these documentaries, contravened the provisions of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code, Sixth edition, especially, the underlisted Sections:

3.1.1: “No broadcast shall encourage or incite to crime. lead to public disorder or hate, be repugnant to public feelings or contain offensive reference to any person or organization, alive or dead or generally be disrespectful to human dignity”;

3.12.2: “The broadcaster shall not transmit a programme that incites or likely to incite to violence among the populace, causing mass panic, political and social upheaval, security breach and general social disorder; and

3.11.2: “The Broadcaster shall ensure that law enforcement is upheld at all times in a manner depicting that law and order are socially superior to, or more desirable than crime or anarchy.”

“The imposed penalties on these Broadcast Media platforms and Station is to be remitted not later than August 30, 2022. Failure to comply with this will lead to the imposition of a higher sanction as provided in the Code.

“Broadcasters are enjoined to be instruments of National unity and desist from falling into antics of using their platforms to promote and glamorize subversive elements and their activities.

“Please note that every Broadcast Station or platform is responsible for the Content it transmits or transmitted on its platform, and shall be held liable for any content in violation of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code.

Sources: NBC Facebook page
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0318diQCUZck858bN9yAVPJnXtdG9sC57PnvTNBx4H4vuyX4mkCdAvas8a2eDYdG3Cl&id=538630746191260&m_entstream_source=timeline

NBC Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgzubh-rs0H/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Channels TV
https://www.channelstv.com/2022/08/03/nbc-fines-dstv-trust-tv-startimes-others-over-documentary-on-bandits/?fbclid=IwAR3r-SJhVSbcA5Rb3W3VoZW75KIc_GltvMUcp042kLf38tQwAf_rCp_VUsM

This letter seems fake to me, it more of reporting a story than a sanction from a government regulatory agency

Asquare84:
This letter seems fake to me, it more of reporting a story than a sanction from a government regulatory agency

Not fake. Confirm from their official social media pages. This govt wants to silence any information that exposes their incompetence.

I will pay the fine and still do another documentaries

Thank God for social media

Useless government

The evil party doing everything possible to suppress information. The whole world knows about the incompetence of the evil party regardless.

Family members of kidnapped victims are being forced to raise N100 million naira to pay as ransom.

“The money is delivered to these terrori*ts to buy more weapons and the government is merely watching.

“After every abduction, the President will summon Service Chiefs to a meeting, a statement will be issued and that is the end of it. What we will hear next is another abduction or series of kidnappings.

APC is nothing but doom

Tstv ke

So they should not tell us the truth abi

Buhari and his cohort are so useless

Which national security when people are dying everyday

Are the people dying animals? So Journalist should not tell us the truth about what is going on?

Up till now Kuje prison break remains a mystery

Useless people

E Go Be

What of youtube?




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-fPEHUqhyA

Very useless government

Rubbish. NBC is very stewpid, sorry to say.

Bandits are kidnapping people, dehumanising, killing and flogging the living daylight out of them.

Then journalists risk their lives to expose the problem, something your security agencies with billions of Dollars budget have failed to do

Then NBC fines them instead of giving them Award!

Those guys are NBC need psychiatric examination. In fact they must be mad

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-"Laws become fragile under the influence of dictators."-Wayne Gerard Trotman.

-"..Tyrants have always shown some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them..."-Voltaire.

-So "..when tyranny and oppression comes into the land,it will be in the guise of fighting crime."-James Madison(US President 1809-1817)

“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” -Martin Luther King Jr.

"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." -Frederick Douglass.

In Nigeria, it is a Government of terrorists and their sympathizers

Na so

APC government wants to gag everyone in this country, they want them to suffer in silence

Useless and unserious government and government bodies that do not like being told the truth.

Instead of looking for solutions, they prefer silencing the truth. Who did we offend to end up here?

Lia Mohamed at work

All this ones don't know next thing
Ba Brain.
Kosi opolo kan kan
National security ko national anthem ni

Seems this people don't know that our security system don dey state of emergency!

This means government is the sponsor of terrorism!

It couldn't be clearer than this.

Evil administration

What's their work again

The BBC USA UK are behind all of the bandits

If you're yet to watch that documentary, do well and watch it... No words.

Rest In Peace to Dora A


She really showed them how to do it

APC
Kai

What for?

Clowns

This useless DSTV should be expelled out of Nigeria

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