By Political Animal.
Breaking: NBC suspends Channels TV for speaking with IPOB
Vanguard Apr 26, 2021.
The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC has suspended Channels Television with a fine N5 million for breaching the broadcast code.
In a letter to the Managing Director of Channels Television ,signed by the Acting Director General of the Commission, NBC, Prof. Armstrong Idachaba,
the Commission referred to Channels 7 pm live broadcast programme of Sunday, 25th April, 2021, in which it accused the TV station of allowing a leader of the Indigenous people of Biafra, IPOB to make secessionist and inciting declarations on air, without caution or reprimand by the station contrary to the broadcast code.
It also accused the station of allowing the Guest speaker to make derogatory, false and misleading statements about the Nigerian Army, despite being proscribed by a court of law.
But ,when a Guest speaker from Miyetti Allah threatened Nigerians on the same Channels TV, NBC did not do anything, no action was taken.
No head rolled.
The IPOB program was just a phone in program and the Government is going ber-serk.The goose and gander of course are not equal.
This shows that we are in a serious problem in Nigeria right now.
The present hijack of all the apparatus of the Nigerian state by one ethnic group has long been in play.
I hope that we don’t wake up one morning to find out that we are in Fulani Republic.
Yet, the clownish Governors in the Southern states are insisting on their deafness.
The present persecution of the fourth Estate of Realm is now taking a new twist.
Speak out and be penalized.
Methinks that,Gumi uttered more rubbish on the same program on Channels TV than what IPOB leader said ,if you have been following channels TV programs.
The North collectively are singing a song yet to be interpreted.
Nigerians are becoming more cowards ,not just pretenders as we wait patiently for the next general election in 2023.
But I pray that before that time our wings wouldn’t have been totally and completely cut off.
With the recent happenings, crowning it with @channelstv sanction,it should be able to convince and not confuse Nigerians that the behavior of the Government is becoming very questionable.
No wonder, Punch Newspaper, @MobilePunch had resolved to keep addressing @MBuhari with his military title.Insisting that the Government is operating “Democratic junta” .
I weep for the country under the present leadership. Never have we ever been so divided.
The battle line seemed drawn , unfortunately ,only a few down South seem to read the hand writing on the wall.
I feel so ashamed.
The messages are getting louder and clearer.
Can we really flourish again with the present division? We should begin to remove the log from our eyes.
We cannot be so different in all aspects as being highlighted, religion, culture, ethnic,politics, food etc and expect us to co-habit perfectly.We need divine intervention.
By the time we are done with this Government,we will collectively beg Abacha’s family for forgiveness.
Sai Baba.
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