Tuesday, 12 November 2019

Senate proposes bill to create agency for hate speech



The Senate has introduced a  bill that seeks to ascertain a central agency to visualize hate speech within the country.

The bill, sponsored by a former Senate spokesman, who is currently the Deputy Senate Whip, Sabi Abdullahi,  passed presentation on the ground of the red chamber on Tues.

It is titled National Commission for the Prohibition of Hate Speeches (Estb., etc) Bill 2019.


A similar bill sponsored by Abdullahi within the eighth Senate prescribed among others, death by hanging for anyone found guilty of the offence.

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