While
Nigerians world over are jubilating over their new found ability to
hold government accountable by constantly criticising them, one of the major benefiary of
the social media has sponsored a bill in the Senate to send Nigerians
to Jail should they be found wanting of hyper criticising the
government.
The man behind the wicked bill is Senator Alhaji Sefiu Adegbenga Kaka, an All Progressive Congress member representing Ogun East Senatorial district. According to a Senator from the South South from the Peoples Democratic Party who spoke to Transparency For Nigeria, they were shock to their marrow when Senator Kaka began to lobby them to hurridly pass
the bill into law. When asked why they were shocked, he noted; “between
us in PDP and his party, who have you guys helped more? Who have you
critics and journalists defended and attacked more? We are at the
receiving end of you press men in the media while you paint them as
angels. Ordinarily, we should be the one sponsoring such bill, not APC”,
he told our reporter.
A
highly placed source within the APC fold who is not happy with the bill
confided in us that the bill is being sponsored for 2015. When asked
what he meant by that, he revealed that they (APC) will form the central
government in 2015 and they will not want to face the kind of critical
reports and write-ups currently being faced by the PDP, hence they have
to act now before the time. He however stated that he was not in support
of such bills that gag freedom of expression.
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