Documentary: Lai Mohammed Under Fire Over Threat To Sanction BBC, Daily Trust

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has incurred the wrath of social media users following his threat to sanction the BBC and Daily Trust over their recent documentaries on terrorism.

Recall that, on Thursday, Mohammed threatened that the Federal Government would sanction BBC and Daily Trust over the documentaries which he judged celebrated terrorists.

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According to Mohammed, the media agencies in their documentaries glorified bandits and terrorists with their interviews and showed the faces of terrorists as if they were Nollywood stars.

GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that the BBC had on Monday broadcast a 50-minute documentary titled ‘The Bandit Warlords of Zamfara’, which captured the booming kidnap-for-ransom industry and other terrorist activities.

Reacting to the Minister’s threat, Nigerians on social media fired the minister and the federal government for threatening to sanction the media outlets over the documentaries.

GreenWhiteGreen GWG gathered some of the reactions:

@Adidi_Concepts: “So the worry isn’t about the insecurity menace the nation is faced with. Lai Mohammed is more concerned with saving face and sanctioning the “4th arm of the constitution” This has to be a joke.”

@NwaOwere_1: “Been waiting for Lai Mohammed and he didn’t disappoint. Always trying to cover evil and change narratives. There have never been consequences for terrorists, but there will be consequences for the media doing their job.”

@ToryBlacq: “Maybe because it was revealed that Zamfara state government paid 60m for ransom, the soldiers shot and killed a civilian kid that only came to welcome his abducted sister, the government know how to reach the bandits but are intentionally not doing anything.”

@KENZO_rdk: “It’s obvious Lai Mohammed made the statement without consulting with NBC, lack of information, didn’t cite any law that was broken or state the exact punishment, the whole video was him assuming what they did was illegal and guessing he could do something about it like a village chief.”

@pdauda: “Why does the Nigerian government desperately need to control the narrative around terrorists and bandits in Northern Nigeria? It’s now obvious they don’t want us to have independent opinions about the violence in parts of the country and this is unacceptable.”

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@Ojayy_tweets: “The documentary highlighted the conflict in Zamfara as about Govt neglect and inter-tribal misunderstanding… What makes these bad?

“The govt is not being honest! Why keep people willing to speak out, hidden? Who takes those ransoms? At least, now you can’t deny their location.”

@NwaOwere_1: “How did BBC get access to these terrorists? Nigerian Armed forces need to answer the question. These guys are not ghosts, they have phones, and they are even chiefs in Emirates. Shame on our security system.”

@KelechiObeh: “This Buhari government have completely gag our media houses. Have you noticed that our media don’t really carry any investigative or exposè news? All they do is report news that is already in the public domain. News has become very boring. It is sad!”

@biggy_orobo: “This was how they banned Twitter, you all are still supporting them, now they’re saying shit about BBC again. Tueh! To all APC supporters.”

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