{"id":82661,"date":"2021-06-23T15:44:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T14:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=82661"},"modified":"2021-06-23T15:44:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T14:44:52","slug":"buhari-wants-to-bring-back-decree-4-through-lai-mohammed-ekpu-onanuga-adefaye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/buhari-wants-to-bring-back-decree-4-through-lai-mohammed-ekpu-onanuga-adefaye\/","title":{"rendered":"Buhari wants to bring back Decree 4 through Lai Mohammed&#8212;-Ekpu, Onanuga, Adefaye"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Respected media veterans in Nigeria in separate interviews\u00a0 have said the anti-press laws and moves to stifle free speech by\u00a0 President Muhammadu Buhari , is a calculated attempt to bring back his notorious Decree 4 through Information minister, lai Mohammed.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government which has banned Twitter also seeks to amend the Nigerian Press Council Act and the National Broadcasting Commission Act that are currently before the National Assembly to have more control over the press.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former Editor-In-Chief of Newswatch Magazine, Ray\u00a0Ekpu said the moves by the government would fail, adding that the media would fight \u201cvaliantly\u201d to resist the anti-democratic actions of the Buhari regime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ekpu also said with the actions of his government, Buhari was bringing back the infamous Decree 4 of 1984, enacted during the dark days of military rule.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cDecree 4 is Buhari\u2019s decree; he is bringing it back in a democratic form using people like Lai Mohammed. He has been talking about China \u2013 \u2018In China, you can\u2019t use your phone, in China, you can\u2019t do this and that\u2019 but are we in China? We were in China before for many years during different military governments but that is no longer the case,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On his part, Bayo Onanuga, a former managing director of the News Agency of Nigeria said the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, was treading \u201ca very dangerous path\u201d by muzzling free speech and press freedom in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cLai (Mohammed) may not understand what he has done but it is a great assault on press freedom; the freedom to freely say anything you want to say under a democracy because that freedom is guaranteed under the constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gbenga Adefaye, who is a former Editor-In-Chief of Vanguard Newspapers,said\u00a0\u201cFreedom of expression is in our constitution. This is even beyond Decree 4 right now; what is happening is beyond Decree 4. In a democracy? This won\u2019t be allowed. The NGE is already working with other organisations like the NUJ and other civil society organisations on actions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI don\u2019t want to pre-empt our eventual agreement but we are not happy at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Punch<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Respected media veterans in Nigeria in separate interviews\u00a0 have said the anti-press laws and moves to stifle free speech by\u00a0 President Muhammadu Buhari , is a calculated attempt to bring&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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