Former
Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode,
has joined other Nigerians to reject the proposed Social Media Bill and the Hate
Speech Bill currently being deliberated upon by the Nigerian Senate.
Fani-Kayode
says the bill, if passed, will be the greatest threat to Nigeria's
democracy.
He said “The
Social Media Bill and the Hate Speech Bill are the greatest threats to
democracy and freedom of expression in the history of Nigeria. If the National
Assembly makes the mistake of passing either or both of these two Bills
Nigerians will suffer the consequences for many generations to come and human
rights, liberty and freedom will be a thing of the past in our country. I would
urge Nigerians not to view this matter with their usual indifference,
complacency, docility, stoicism and lily-livered cowardice because the whole
thing is an insidious atttempt to silence their tongues, cage their spirits,
capture their souls, break their ability to resist tyranny and evil and finally
turn them into a nation of pliant little quislings, slaves and errand boys. What
we are witnessing is the final and greatest manifestation of the fascistic,
totalitarian and authoritarian state which, like Hitler's Germany, is creeping
up and hiding under the guise of democracy. Buhari and his friends want Nigeria
to be like Stalin's Soviet Union or, better still, like today's North Korea and
Saudi Arabia. These are countries where dissent, oppositon to Government,
plurality of views, variety of opinion, individual rights and criticism of
Government policy and the maximum dictator is forbidden and where total power
is concentrated in the hands of just one man. This is the classic Orwellian
nightmare and it is unfolding before our very eyes. If they get away with it
and achieve their objectives Nigeria is finished and within a matter of years
we will become the blight of Africa, the pariah of the Third World, the
laughing stock of the international community and the worlds largest, most
brutal and most savage prison. What a terrible fate for a people that are so
compliant, so trusting, so innovative, so resourceful, so resilient and so
blessed.”
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