The Statement of Professor Ben Nwabueze Concerning IPOB

Biafra: What Igbo elders 

will do If Buhari fails to remove IPOB from 

Terrorist’ list – Prof. Nwabueze

A renowned constitutional lawyer, Prof. Ben Nwabueze has said that if President Muhammadu Buhari-led government continues its alleged injustice on the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Igbo elders be forced to takeover the agitation.

He said this while insisting that he will not be part of any kind of peace talk until the Federal Government reverses the proscription of the IPOB and removed it from its list of terrorist’ organisations.

He stated this when the leadership of IPOB visited him in his Kosisieme Family Estate residence in Atani, Ogbaru Local Government Area, Anambra State.

The IPOB had gone to apologise to him and the leadership of Eastern Consultative Assembly, ECA, for disrupting their meeting in Enugu on February 27, 2018.

Prof. Nwabueze said, “If the injustice being meted by the Federal Government on IPOB is not addressed, it will get to the stage when it will become an all embracing Igbo movement, that elders like me will take over the agitation and it will spell doom for the country.

“The injustice meted on Ndigbo and everything concerning them in Nigeria, justify the agitation by IPOB,” adding that “injustice against Ndigbo, dates back to 1965 when the Governing Council of University of Lagos, dominated by the Yoruba attempted to illegally remove a Vice Chancellor of Igbo extraction of the institution, Prof. Enyi Njoku.

“I still remember the story of University of Lagos when on 2nd March 1965, then I was a lecturer in the newly established University of Lagos, they attempted to remove Prof. Enyi Njoku as the Vice Chancellor and I said no, we will not accept that. I mobilised all the university students and lecturers in protest and the university was closed down for a whole session.

“We fought the Federal Government of Alhaji Tafawa Balewa to a stand still. I was arrested and sentenced to six months imprisonment by a Yoruba Magistrate for leading the protest and we appealed the judgment and a Sierra-Leonian Judge, J.S Taylor threw the judgment away and reversed my six months imprisonment and I regained my freedom and there was jubilation everywhere in Lagos by Ndigbo.

He lambasted the current administration for proscribing IPOB when organisations and associations like armed herdsmen, whom he said had massacred and slaughtered many Nigerians and are still killing people, have not been proscribed or declared a terrorist organisation.

“I will not be part of any kind of peace talk until the IPOB is unproscribed, until the declaration of IPOB as a terrorist organisation is removed. If the Federal Government has the courage to meet these two conditions, okay. We can talk peace and I will be there. If not, then count me out.

“I will not participate in any kind of peace talk so long as IPOB remains proscribed, so long as IPOB remains a terrorist group or organisation in the eye of the Federal Government. IPOB is only agitating for Biafra and self determination; they have killed nobody. On the contrary, IPOB members have been killed and are still being killed by the Federal Government’s troops.

“Nothing has been done to those who have committed murder and slaughtered innocent and law abiding citizens. You have not even disarmed the herdsmen, they are still moving about with AK 47riffles slaughtering people all over the places.”

Published on April 9, 2018 By John Owen Nwachukwu

THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY 

AND HIS CRUEL HUSBAND

When President Muhammadu Buhari arrived in the United Kingdom in preparation for the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting, Archbishop Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Cantetbury and the presiding Bishop of the Church of England, who dutifully sat at his bedside when he was critically ill last year and who has assumed the role of his beloved second wife, said the following:

"Mr. President, you have my best wishes on your recent decision. I read your declaration speech. We are neutral as a Church but we will pray for you. Great statesmen are those who run for the good of their country. We will be praying for you".

There is no question in my mind that Welby is Buhari's new-found bride.

As I said in an earlier contribution, it is clear to me that this 'same-sex-marriage-loving' and confused English Archbishop deserves to be hung, drawn, quartered and burnt at the stake!

He says he will be praying for a blood-lusting and tyrannical monster that has inflicted nothing but pain and hardship on the Nigerian people.

What on earth have we done to Justin Welby to deserve this disdain, contempt, insult and mockery? Would he pray that such a creature should preside over the affairs of his Great Britain?

Does Justin know who and what his husband really is and what he has done? Does he even care to do the research and find out?

Has the blood of the Christian martyrs and saints that has been shed over the last three years in Nigeria not moved or touched the heart of this so-called Archbishop?

Has he lost all sense of decency and compassion and has the milk of human kindness stopped flowing in his veins?

Has he stopped hearing from God or is he just rebellious and defiant to the leading of the Spirit and the voice of the Lord? As a matter of fact did he EVER hear from God?

When a senior cleric espouses a cold-blooded and merciless demoniac it gives cause for concern. When a shepherd encourages and endorses the bestial atrocities of an insatiable wolf that takes pleasure in devouring his sheep it is an abomination.

Since when did the Church of England and the Archbishop of Canterbury sink so low?

You are associating with a tyrant who is in open collusion and collaboration with Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram and who has presided over, orchestrated and encouraged the mass murder and slaughter of hundreds of thousands of his own people.

This is a man who has refused to label the Fulani herdsmen terrorists and who has publicly identified with some of the core values of Boko Haram and defended them on numerous occasions over the years.

You say that you are neutral as a Church yet you keep having photo-ops and closed-door meetings with the tyrant and you refuse to condemn him for his gross and barbaric human rights violations, his attacks on and marginalisation of adherents of the Christian faith, his contempt for the Church and his hatred for non-Muslims and non-Fulanis. I say shame on you!

The attempt by the British government and intelligence agencies, using a discredited and out of touch 'same-sex-marriage-loving' Archbishop Justin Welby, to help to prop up and legitimise a failed tyrant, an ethnic cleanser and a genocidal maniac who hates and kills non-Fulanis, Shia Muslims, IPOB youths and Christians, will fail.

Permit me to go further by putting the following questions to the Archbishop.

How can you possibly know who your real friends in Nigeria are or who and what your husband really is when you didn't even know who your real father was until two years ago?

How can you possibly recognise the fact that entering into intimate relations and deep fraternity with a man whose hands are soaked in blood and who delights in indulging in wickedness and injustice is anti-Christ and ungodly when you preside over a Church that encourages and administers same-sex marriages and that believes that being gay is a virtue?

Is it any wonder that many Anglican denominations all over the world, including Nigeria and Africa, severed ties with and renounced the English branch of the Anglican Church over ten years ago because of your love for homosexuals and gay marriage and other grave doctrinal violations of the Holy Scriptures?

I have nothing but contempt for your weakness and inability to preserve and protect the gospel and true teachings and beliefs of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and I view you as nothing but a compromised and corrupted hell-bound soul.

Your love for your husband Buhari does not surprise me. I am aware that it has always been so since his days at PTF.

I do not expect any better from you because I know how flawed, insensitive, seedy, irresponsible, detached, out of touch with reality and compromised you really are but because of your station in the Church and reverred calling others may well do. Consequently I am constrained to put the following questions to you.

Have you asked the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) what they and the 120 million Christians that they represent have been going through since your husband came to power?

Do you know how many Christians are killed on a daily basis in Nigeria by security forces and state-sponsored Fulani jihadist militias?

Have you asked the Anglican Communion in Nigeria what Christians have been going through in our country under your husband?

Have you asked the Methodists, the Baptists, the Catholics, the Evangelicals, the Pentecostals, the Cherubim and Seraphim, the Apostolic Church, CAC, ECWA, COCIN or any other Christian denomination in Nigeria what their members have witnessed over the last three years?

Have you sought the counsel of the National Christian Elders Forum (NCEF) and found out from them precisely what the overall objective and long-term plans of your husband's government is for Christians in Nigeria and how his greatest desire is to islamise our nation through a process that they have aptly described as "stealth jihad"?

Have you read the excellent article titled "Nigeria and State Complicity With Terrorists" by the British security analyst Dr. Ann McGregor which makes a compelling case about the collusion and strong collaboration that exists between the Buhari government and the Al Barnawi-faction of Boko Haram?

Do you know how Christian officers are treated in the security and intelligence agencies and in the Armed Forces in Nigeria?

Do you know the indignities that they have been subjected to and do you appreciate the fact that they cannot speak out due to fear of sanctions and reprisals?

Do you know that every single one of the para-military, security and intelligence agencies in Nigeria and every branch of the Nigerian Armed Forces except for the Navy is headed by a northern Muslim?

Are you aware of the fact that the Trump administration, through Vice President Mike Pence of the United States of America, has described Nigeria as "the most dangerous place in the world for Christians to live?"

Do you know that they are absolutely right about that? 

Do you know that thousands of Shiite Muslims and Igbo youths have been butchered by your husband's security agencies and Armed Forces over the last three years?

Do you know that Nigeria has become an abbatoir of human blood and butchery under him?

Do you know that Amnesty International has accused your husband's government of heinous human rights violations and mass murder?

Do you know that Transparancy International has accused him and his government of indulging in more corruption than any other government that came before him?

Do you know that the IMF has said that more people are hungry under his government than any previous administration?

Do you know that President Olusegun Obasanjo, President Ibrahim Babangida, President Goodluck Jonathan, General T.Y. Danjuma, Vice President Atiku Abubakar, the leaders of Afenifere, Ohaeneze, The Middle Belt Forum, the Niger Delta elders and countless other leaders across political party and socio-cultural lines have condemned your husbands activities and record in public office and asked him not to come back?

Do you know that 808 Christians were murdered in their homes by Fulani herdsmen on Christmas eve and Christmas day alone in 2016?

Do you know that not one of the herdsmen that perpetuated this heinous crime was caught or brought to justice simply because they enjoy the support of your husband and his security agencies?

Do you know that hundreds of thousands of others have been butchered in the same way and by the same people all over the Middle Belt and the south over the last three years?

Do you know the terror the Christians and indigenous people of Taraba, Benue, Plateau, Adamawa, Kogi, Kwara, Nassarawa, Niger, Enugu, Abia, Anambra, Oyo, Ogun, Ekiti, Oshun, Delta, Edo, Akwa Ibom, Cross Rivers, Imo, Ebonyi, Lagos, Zamfara and others have been subjected to by your husbands kinsmen in the name of cattle-herding over the last three years?

Do you know that when the Fulanis kill they target women and children especially and they remove the vital organs, eyes, tongue, private parts, liver, kidneys and hearts of their victims?

Do you know that they use those human parts for ritual purposes? Do you know that they are pagans and not real Muslims?

Do you know that not one Fulani herdsman has been brought to justice in the last three years by your husband even though they have slaughtered hundreds of thousands of innocent and defenceless Christians and non-Fulani Muslims all over the country?

Do you know that they enjoy official protection and support from your husband? Do you know that your husband refers to them publicly as his "people" and his "brothers" and that he has appealed to the communities whose people they have slaughtered to "accomodate them" and "treat them with understanding?"

Do you know that Christians and non-Fulanis are disarmed by your husbands security forces and told that they must not attempt to defend themselves when they are attacked by the Fulani otherwise they will be arrested or shot by the police or the military?

Do you know that your husband once said that Boko Haram should not be wiped out and that "an attack on Boko Haram is an attack on the north?"

Do you know that Boko Haram once proposed him as their spokesman and chief negotiator in proposed talks with President Jonathan's government?

Do you know that he shares some of their core values and objectives such as the view that sharia must be spread and practised in every part of the country?

Do you know that he once said that Muslims should only vote for Muslims? Do you know that he once said that it is not the business of Christians when Muslims cut off the limbs of other Muslims under sharia because it is not Christian limbs that are being cut off?

Do you know that your husband hates the Igbo people of south-eastern Nigeria who are predominantly Christians? Do you know that over 2 million of the Igbo, including 1 million children, were slaughtered by Nigerian forces in our civil war and that your husband was deeply involved in that carnage and slaughter?

Do you know that last year he declared IPOB, an Igbo organisation who believe in the right of self-determination and the establishment of Biafra, who do not have an armed wing and who have never carried arms, killed anyone or indulged in any form of violence, as a terrorist organisation?

Do you know that he "disappeared" Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of IPOB and in the process killed many people in his house?

Do you know that he has locked up Sheik El Zak Zaky, the leader of the Shiite Muslims in Nigeria, indefinately and against court orders after killing his children, slaughtering hundreds of his people, shooting his wife four times in the stomach and shooting him in the eye?

Do you know that he has detained Col. Sambo Dasuki, a former National Security Advisor, a reasonable, moderate, civilised, urbane, cosmopolitan, liberal and blue-blooded Fulani Prince of the Sokoto Caliphate and a man whose only crimes are that he served President Goodluck Jonathan diligently and that he presents a credible and potent threat to your husbands tyrannical government and 2019 ambitions?

Do you know that your husband has not only given Boko Haram millions of dollars in ransoms over the last three years but he has also released ALL their key commanders and granted them amnesty?

Do you know that many of the freed Boko Haram footsoldiers that your husband has set free are secretly being drafted into the Nigerian Army?

Do you know that your husband's Minister of Information, one Lai Mohammed, once complained that Boko Haram should never have been proscribed in the first place and that it was "unjust" for the Jonathan administration to have done so?

Do you know that the supposed kidnap of the Dapchi schoolgirls was a government-sponsored money-making scam and that the only girl that was not freed and allowed to go home was Leah Sharibu, the only Christian amongst them, simply because she refused to renounce her faith?

Do you know that your husband has consistently humiliated Christians, insulted CAN, shamed the Church and treated believers with more contempt than any other President or Head of State in the history of Nigeria since he came to power?

Do you know that he is an ethnic cleanser whose Air Force has bombed predominantly Christian IDP camps and communities and whose Army has colluded with Fulani herdsmen to commit genocide and mass murder against Christian communities?

Do you know the number of petitions and credible allegations that have been filed against your husband and his military commanders at the International Criminal Court at the Hague (ICC) and do you know that he has committed more crimes against humanity and war crimes than virtually all of those that have been jailed by that same court in the past.

Do you know that northern and Middle Belt Nigeria is in a state of undeclared war and that thousands of people are slaughtered by your husband's Fulani herdsmen every day?

Do you know how much suffering and havoc he has unleashed in our land and how much he has tormented our people?

The truth is that your marriage to Buhari sickens. By entering into this ungodly union you have betrayed your calling as a priest and you turned your back on the whole of Christiandom.

You have also spat on the graves of hundreds of thousands of believers that your husband has murdered over the last three years.

You have defecated on the memories and the sacrifice of the martyrs and pissed all over the holy scrlptures that constrains us to stand up against tyrants and bullies, to speak up for the oppressed, the weak, the persecuted, the poor, the falsely accused and the righteous, to fight against injustice and tyranny and to resist evil.

Like Macbeth you have murdered sleep, you shall sleep no more and your wickedness shall come back to haunt you.

You should bow your head in shame and ask God for forgiveness.

I advise you to file divorce papers against Buhari, terminate your ungodly marriage to him and find yourself a new husband.

Finally consider this.

President Donald Trump broke the news to the world that American, British and French jets were on their way to bomb Syria on the morning of 14th April he asked the following question:

"To Iran and to Russia, I ask: What kind of a nation wants to be associated with the mass murder of innocent men, women and children?"

I put the same question to Archbishop Justin Welby and all those that share his unnatural affection, love and support for President Muhammadu Buhari today by asking,

"What kind of a man wants to be associated with the mass murder of innocent men, women and children?"

 

ORO NATION: RAISING PODIUMS 

FOR WORTHY AMBASSADORS

Essien Ndueso

It was a colourful, glamorous and emotional ceremony, as an event organised to receive two eminent indigenes of Oron federal constituency, turned out to be a celebration of the impactful leadership of Governor Udom Emmmanuel in the federal constituency.

At a reception organised in honour of the Secretary to the State Government, Dr. Emmanuel Ekuwem and President General of Oro Union, Chief (Mrs.) Janet Amba, the Oro people turned out in their numbers, the youth, women, elders and royal fathers to commend Governor Emmanuel for his numerous efforts at bringing back hope to the people.

In a dramatic show of love and appreciation, the youths rallied in solidarity with Governor Udom Emmanuel for particularly fulfilling his promises on road constructions, educational infrastructures, provision of social amenities, industrialization and earnestly working to ensure Ibom Deep Seaport is realized.

Their general opinion was encapsulated in the few lines by the chairman on the occasion and former deputy governor, Engr. Etim Okpoyo, who said his people sincerely appreciated the governor for redefining their narratives in developmental programmes and political inclusion and pledged their resolve to continue to support him, even as he urged the governor not to relent in executing more projects in the five local government areas of Oro nation.

During his campaign visit to the area in 2015, Governor Emmanuel had assured the people of Oron that he is the Oron Governor they were looking for, and that their pains were his pains. Barely two weeks in office, Governor Udom Emmanuel worried by the reports from the federal constituency which accommodates the five local government areas of the third largest ethnic group in the state, visited Oron metropolis under a torrential downpour. Governor Emmanuel literarily wept as he walked under the downpour, and in the flood water. From the Main Oron Road to Bassey Street and through Mainland Avenue, a road that leads to the Maritime Academy of Nigeria, things were not just right in the eyes of a governor whose name means right.

It was not an interesting site to behold, as the governor found no access to the communities in the ancient coastal area. When Governor Emmanuel promised the Oro people that he will return, they perhaps did not believe him. In no time, Governor Udom Emmanuel completed the construction of outfalls drains to takeaway flood water from Oron metropolis and channeled it to the river basin. Apart from the underground drains, he also completed the construction of five roads which include, Mainland street, Efiat street adjoining Efiat lane, Bassey lane, Anwana Esin street, Mary Hanny, and the Post Office street. In 2016, exactly one year into his administration, Governor Emmanuel returned to Oron, this time, it was to the warm embrace of the people who were amazed at the wonders he had bequeathed in just one year.

Indeed the story is different today as the people of Oron are pouring encomiums on the Akwa Ibom State Governor. Residents described the road projects as amazing, saying the state Governor has wiped away tears and decades of suffering.

Apart from these two major dual carriage way, Akwa Ibom State Government has awarded the construction of five new roads. This includes Atta Street, Ebo Street, Market Street, Murtala Mohammed Road and Asbestonit Road. Market Street drainages are being linked to both Awana Esin Road and Post office Street, complete with water channelization to serve as outfalls drainage that will collect the flood water and channel it to the river basin.

In Mbo Local Government Area , Governor Udom Emmanuel-led administration has demonstrated a clear sense of commitment not to abandon any project started by the previous administration mobilized the contractor back to site to complete the abandoned, once very popular, Etebi- Ewang road with a Bridge, that links Esit Eket and Mbo Local Government Areas .

Governor Udom Emmanuel has awarded contract for the construction of the 9 kilometer Secretariat Road that traverses Eyo Ulliong- Ediko- Uduetta in Udung Uko Local Government area with spurs of about 3 kilometres, the first of its kind since creation of the local Government Area. Apart from the awarded road, the State government is also profiling Udesi road that cut across Mbo-Udung Uko –Orue Ofong Oruku Local Government Areas respectively.

In Okobo and Urueffong Oruko, the State Government has awarded contract for the construction of Nung Atai Eta-Ebighi Eta-Obufi-Atabong Road with a jetty and Uruting- Eyede-Osu Offi-Afaha Osu-Otieke-Utine-Nsie Road as well as the Ebughu –Udesi-Oruko road.

The Ibom Deep Seaport is an audacious attempt to change the maritime story of Akwa Ibom State. It holds the promise of an industrial revolution of our State. It holds the promise of the industrialization of Akwa Ibom. Recently, to further open up the deep seaport communities, a 55.5km dual carriage super Highway was recently flagged of to connect Ibeno-Eket and Oron.

These among other reasons could account for the overwhelming expression of satisfaction and happiness on the Governor, by the Oro people during the special reception ceremony.

Speaking at the ceremony by the Oro Union in Oron, Governor Udom Emmanuel commended Oro youths for being very peaceful and promised to provide more employment, development, and empowerment in order to make them to become responsible men in the society.

Amidst cheers and ovations, the Governor who was accompanied by his wife, Mrs Martha Udom Emmanuel, recalled some of the intervention works successfully undertaken by his administration in Oro nation shortly on assumption of office in 2015 and promised to visit the area soon for inauguration of projects.

Commending the honorees, Dr Emmanuel Ekuwem and Chief (Mrs) Janet Amba, the State Chief Executive said he is not yet done with his plans for the people, and spoke of more good things to come in power supply, more roads and flood control programmes.

The Secretary to the State Government, Dr. Ekuwem who thanked his kinsmen for the honour on them, said their appreciation was more for the governor who is assiduously committed to transforming the area, and indeed the entire state.

This appears to be the best of times for the people of Oron Federal constituency of Akwa Ibom State, otherwise known as Oro nation. Through quality roads network, erosion control interventions, drainages and other health and educational infrastructure, iced with unprecedented political recognition, Governor Emmanuel is telling the people that they are so dear to his heart.

All the dignitaries including the Deputy Governor, Mr. Moses Ekpo, Speaker of AKHA, Rt. Hon. Onofiok Luke, serving and former political office holders and indeed the royal fathers, watched with awe as appreciations trailed the governor’s latest visit to the Oro people.

With the ongoing construction of the Airport -Okobo-Oron dual carriage road, and other interventions, anyone can see clearly that Oro is gradually becoming the major gateway of Governor Emmanuel’s industrial revolution in Akwa Ibom State. For the Oro people, it is worth noting that at last, prophets are being recognized by their kinsmen, while the tangible efforts of the governor in their respective communities have won him their admiration.

Biafra and the world: "we never conquered or dominated anyone around us who looked like us, historically all our wars had been with the invaders during Slave trade and during Biafran War!"

By Ahamba Anoruo
For: The Biafra Restoration Voice (TBRV)

At approximately the same time, late 1700, Haitians achieved the same feat Americans achieved. Same triumph over evil dominance. For Haitians, it was triumph over French Slave Masters while in America it was a triumph against Colonial Masters.

While Americans were celebrated, Haitians were demonized. A conspiracy against the victorious negroes was hatched in Europe by the defeated French and sold to every non pigmented human in Europe and America and so, in a twinkle of an Eye, Haiti, the Richest and most prosperous Colony as at that time was reduced to abject poverty by European and American economic boycott of the new Black power republic.

As at the time when Whites banded together across borders to sustain their own interests, the converse was happening in Africa.
Whites used black people to subdue black people. Somewhere in West Africa, the Europeans met a group of proud and stubborn folks who refused to give up their lands like their surrounding counterparts. They lived in isolated and highly independent units and clans with no clear-cut leadership and staged the fiercest resistance to the invaders. The most prominent was the Aro Kingdom.

The Europeans picked dickhead blacks from the Goldcoast and Badagry which extends to present day Benin Republic, armed the dickheads and marched them down to Biafraland and so the dickhead blacks were used to subdue the Aro Kingdom and proceeded to subdue other surrounding clans in Biafra.

When people try to argue about racial superiority, i try to counter it ONLY on individual basis, because collectively Black People lack Social Cohesion, a concept in Sociology which the white man has used to his advantage to appear superior!

Biafrans don't share in this blame inherent amongst Africans, despite our numbers in the East, we never conquered or dominated anyone around us who looked like us, historically all our wars had been with the invaders during Slave trade and during Biafran War!

                    HATE SPEECH LAW IN NIGERIA- 

                      A PLOY TO SILENCE CRITICS 

                         OF NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT

By Chidi Aloysius Nwosu (Abia writers)

Edited by Livingrich Ezeikpe

There is no clear definition of hate speech and difference between hate speech and criticism. For some people, hate speech is a speech, which intends to attack or insult a person or group on the basis of attributes such as religion, race, sexual orientation, disability, gender and ethnic origin. In some countries, hate speech is described as speech, gesture or conduct, writing or display which incites violence or prejudicial action against a protected group or individual on the basis of their membership of the group or because it disparages or intimidates a protected group or individual on the basis of their membership of the group.

Senator Aliyu Sabi of Niger state sponsored a bill prescribing the death penalty for hate speech in the Nigerian Senate. Some people opined that if the hate speech bill in Nigeria is passed, it will be abused and used by the government against the opposition or critics of the government and people will be killed wrongly because they criticize the government.

According to one Carol Ajie, a constitutional and human rights lawyer, "hate speech bill is unconstitutional and unlawful and will also impede on citizens right to freedom of speech despite the constitutional guarantees to free speech. A part of chapter IV Bill of rights is being backed off like that, particularly in a midsized democracy, under the cover of legislating on hate speeches, when our statute books are replete with provisions that protect our names from unlawful damage, that is the law of libel. The existing law punishes conduct that tends to result in the death of others- that is unlawful death".

The international press centre has also warned the Senate against going ahead with the passage of the bill now before it, which prescribes death sentence for hate speech, sponsored by Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi of Niger state. The centre in a statement delivered by Lanre Arogundate, its chairman in Lagos, warned that “if passed, the bill would crush the right of Nigerians to freedom of expression as guaranteed by the constitution of the country”. He also asked the National Assembly to convene a meeting with stakeholders to determine what would be regarded as hate speech, as it has no clear definition.

If hate speech would attract a death penalty in Nigeria, it is wondered what would be the punishment for corruption, which is the dwelling place of all the Nigerian senators!