The Federal Government has stated that it will sanction the BBC and Trust Tv for airing respective documentaries that it thinks are glorifying and fueling terrorism, banditry in Nigeria.
This was made known by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, in an interview with newsmen on Thursday in Abuja.
Mohammed said the Federal Government is aware of the unprofessional documentary by the BBC, Africa Eye, where interviews were granted to bandit warlords and terror gangs, thereby promoting terror in the country.
He said the BBC did not uphold the same standards and tenets as they would have done in the UK.
The minister also condemned Trust Tv, owned by Media Trust Ltd. for using its platform to grant interviews to a bandit kingpin, Shehu Rekeb, thereby promoting the activities of terrorists.
According to him, both platforms by their actions have become “accomplices to terrorists and bandits” in the name of reporting.
The minister said the appropriate regulatory body was already looking at the infractions and appropriate sanctions would be meted out to both platforms.
He said that the regulatory body which is the Nigeria Broadcasting Commission (NBC) is aware of these two incidents and are looking at which part of the Broadcasting Code has been violated by the BBC and Trust TV .
He said that they will not get away with it, as appropriate sanctions will be meted to both the BBC and the Trust Tv.
0
0
