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NBC overrules minister on broadcasting code
Aug 14, 2020
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The crisis rocking the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) appears far from being over, as the board, yesterday, declared the adoption of the 2020 broadcasting code illegal.
It held that all actions taken by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed and the commission’s acting Director General, Prof. Armstrong Idachaba, to review and adopt the sixth code for the regulation of the industry did not follow due process, thus stand rejected.
Addressing the media yesterday in Abuja, board chairman, Ikra Aliyu Bilbis, leading nine other members, claimed that the minister was fond of dropping President Muhammadu Buhari’s name for the wrong reason.
He clarified that the code “is a regulatory framework put together jointly by stakeholders to guide their operations in the industry and is therefore not a unilateral government instrument, as it is already back by law thus not requiring any further presidential approval.”
Arguing that Mohammed had not shown a copy of the presidential endorsement till date, Bilbis added that the Nigerian leader “is a stickler for due process.”
He maintained that the minister’s version of the revised NB Code “does not meet any known criterion of due process and inclusiveness of stakeholders.”
The board denied endorsing the new regulation contrary to the claims of the acting chief executive of the organisation.The Idachaba-led management had subjected the amendments to public scrutiny on March 26,2020 in Lagos amid insinuation that the move had the backing of the board.
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