In this 21st
century, how could someone in his right thinking sense be proposing and
lobbying his colleagues in the Senate to pass a bill ‘to send Nigerian to Jail
should they found wanting of hyper criticizing the government’?
It was gathered
that the man behind this wicked bill is no other person than Senator Alhaji Sefiu Adegbenga Kaka,
an All Progressive Congress member representing Ogun East Senatorial
district.
The main reason for
this ‘’slavery bill’’ according to a Senator from the South South
from the Peoples Democratic Party who spoke to Transparency For Nigeria,
said they were shock to their marrow when Senator Kaka began to lobby
them to horridly pass the bill into law. When asked why they were
shocked, he noted; “between us in PDP and his party, who have you guys helped
more? Who have you critics and journalists defended and attacked more? We are
at the receiving end of you press men in the media while you paint them as
angels. Ordinarily, we should be the one sponsoring such bill, not APC”.
A highly placed
source within the APC fold who is not happy with the bill confided that the
bill is being sponsored for 2015. When asked what he meant by that, he revealed
that they (APC) will form the central government in 2015 and they will not want
to face the kind of critical reports and write-ups currently being faced by the
PDP, hence they have to act now before the time. He however stated that he was
not in support of such bills that gag freedom of expression.
Then the question
we need to asked APC is that are we going back to military era, where decree 4 was the in thing?
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