By Tony Nnadi
Reports have it that following the angry outpouring of public condemnation and outrage over the proposed Hate Speech Bill, the sponsor of the Obnoxious Death-For-Free-Speech-Bill, Senator Abdullahi Sabi who is also the Deputy Chief Whip of Nigeria’s Senate has said that the Death Penalty aspect of the atrocious Bill will amended in deference to Public Opinion.
According to that report, the Senator went on to assert that most Nigerians agree with him that Hate Speeches are responsible for Killings, Violence leading to countless cases of Depression and Suicides in Nigeria and therefore have become such a National Emergency requiring immediate Legislative Action.
(Facebook Wall of Channelstv.com, November 24, 2019)
Tony Nnadi of the LNC responded to the Report as follows:
“Relating to the Proposed “Hate Speech Bill” and whatever Amendments to it, Who will be kind enough to explain, maybe in Fulfulde Language, to this dumb yamhead called Senator Abdullahi Sabi, that the Legislative Mandate of Nigeria’s National Assembly does not include the power to abrogate, abridge, criminalize or in anyway negate Constitutionally Guaranteed Fundamental Rights and Freedoms (in this case the Right to Freedom of Thought and Expression).
Regarding his egregious Falsehood posited that:
“Clearly from the conversations, Nigerians agree that we have a problem in the society today as a result of hate speech which has fuelled so many killings and violence, and is responsible for cases of depression and suicides.”
Let someone be kind enough to explain to him that the Nigerian Public as well as the well the informed segment of the International Community already know that most of the Killings and Violence in Nigeria flow directly from the Caliphate-Sponsored Ethnic Cleansing Campaign of the Murderous Fulani Militia masquerading as “Herdsmen”, (his kinsmen), against the Indigenous Nationalities of Nigeria.
Let him also know that it is the Official Hate Actions emanating from the 97%-5%-Dichotomy Policy that had so rapidly ruined the fragile economy of Nigeria in a manner that fuel the unprecedented numbers of Depression and Suicide Cases, including the hitherto unheard of, indiscriminate plunging into the Lagoon by extremely frustrated and utterly hopeless Nigerians whose lives had become so totally meaningless.
Let this moron of a Senator be informed that even if the Penalty for “Hate Speech” Infraction is reduced from Death-By-Hanging to One Day Imprisonment, no one outside his sinking bloodthirsty Miyetti Allah circle and perhaps the notorious author of Decree No.4 of 1984 will buy into passing of such a Draconian Law that seek to constrict Free Speech”.
Tony Nnadi, an Attorney and the Secretary General of the Lower Niger Congress, writes from Lagos, Nigeria
