- As CLASFON kicks against attempts by FG to muzzle free speech
Tobi Soniyi and John Shiklam in Kaduna
Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has advised lawmakers not to join the rank of killers with their plan to pass the Hate Speech Bill into law.
Soyinka, in a statement he issued on Friday tittled ‘Is it now cool to kill? – An anguished letter to Nigerian lawmakers,’ advised the legislators to reconsider their position even as he reminded them that they might be victims of the law in the future.
Also yesterday the Christian Lawyers Fellowship of Nigeria (CLASFON) called on the kicked against any attempt by the federal government to muzzle freedom of speech.
The Hate Speech Bill which is before the Senate prescribes death by hanging among other punishments for anyone found guilty of the offence.
However, Soyinka said that death penalty should not be the punishment for hate speech.
He said: “However, dear legislators,…
Source: Thisday Newspaper
