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Africa-Press<\/a> – Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Federal Government on Friday denied sponsoring bills purportedly meant to gag the press and regulate social media.<\/p>\n

Recall that the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, had urged the House of Representatives to include regulation of Twitter in the National Broadcasting Commission Act.<\/p>\n

The Minister made the call at the public hearing on a bill to amend the NBC Act organized by the House Committee on Information.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will want to add that specifically, internet broadcasting and all online media should be included in this because we have a responsibility to monitor content\u2014 including Twitter,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

However, in an interview with newsmen in Lagos, Mohammed said the bills concerning the Nigerian Press Council and the National Broadcasting Commission were private member bills sponsored by a lawmaker in the National Assembly.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst, let me say how disappointed I am that those who have been berating me on these bills have been doing so on a false premise that the Federal Government had sponsored bills to stifle the press.<\/p>\n

\u201dThis is a classic case of misinformation because the Federal Government did not sponsor any bill to gag the press.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt baffles me that those who rushed to the media to slam the government didn\u2019t even try to verify the facts,\u2019\u2019 he said<\/p>\n

The minister further stated that the National Assembly member who sponsored the bills had done nothing wrong. He said the legislator was only doing what he was elected to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cI insist that the bills were not sponsored by the Federal Government.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was invited, as the Minister of Information and Culture, to make my contributions, just like many other stakeholders at the public hearing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was an opportunity for stakeholders to make their input into the bills.<\/p>\n

\u201dI attended and made my contributions,\u2019\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n

Amnesty kicks against calls by FG to regulate social media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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