The National
Conscience Party (NCP) has condemned the anti-freedom of speech bill by the
upper chamber of the National Assembly.
The party, through
Comrade Omole Olusegun, the Special Assistant to its National Chairman, noted
that the bill has hidden agendas and must not be allowed by every well meaning
Nigerian. APC is in government as a result of freedom of speech in which the
immediate administration allowed.
NCP rejects in its
entity the passage to the bill and calls for immediate review of the so call
bill aimed at killing Nigerian with on timely death as it prescribed death by
hanging for those found guilty of hate speech.
Such law the party
said is an abuse of the legislative process that would violate Nigerians
constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of speech and went on to call on
APC led government to be prudent and build upon the tolerance inherited from
those years instead of introducing laws that would shrink the democratic space
in order to satisfy personal and group interests.
