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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 āThe Bandit Warlords of Zamfaraā, which captured the booming kidnap-for-ransom industry and other terrorist activities.
Reacting to the Ministerās 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: āSo the worry isnāt about the insecurity menace the nation is faced with. Lai Mohammed is more concerned with saving face and sanctioning the ā4th arm of the constitutionā This has to be a joke.ā
@NwaOwere_1: āBeen waiting for Lai Mohammed and he didnāt 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.ā
@ToryBlacq: āMaybe 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.ā
@KENZO_rdk: āItās obvious Lai Mohammed made the statement without consulting with NBC, lack of information, didnāt 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.ā
@pdauda: āWhy does the Nigerian government desperately need to control the narrative around terrorists and bandits in Northern Nigeria? Itās now obvious they donāt want us to have independent opinions about the violence in parts of the country and this is unacceptable.ā
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@Ojayy_tweets: āThe documentary highlighted the conflict in Zamfara as about Govt neglect and inter-tribal misunderstandingā¦ What makes these bad?
āThe govt is not being honest! Why keep people willing to speak out, hidden? Who takes those ransoms? At least, now you canāt deny their location.ā
@NwaOwere_1: āHow 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.ā
@KelechiObeh: āThis Buhari government have completely gag our media houses. Have you noticed that our media donāt really carry any investigative or exposĆØ news? All they do is report news that is already in the public domain. News has become very boring. It is sad!ā
@biggy_orobo: āThis was how they banned Twitter, you all are still supporting them, now theyāre saying shit about BBC again. Tueh! To all APC supporters.ā
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