Hate Speech Offenders To Die By Hanging In Senate’s New Bill
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A new bill that is currently being debated in the Nigerian Senate has proposed death by hanging for anyone found guilty of any form of hate speech that results in the death of another person.
The bill which is being sponsored by Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, the senate spokesperson, seeks the establishment of an ‘Independent National Commission for Hate Speeches’, which shall enforce hate speech laws across the country, ensure the elimination of the menace and advise the Federal Government.
For offences such as harassment on the grounds of ethnicity or racial contempt, a culprit shall be sentenced to “not less than a five-year jail term or a fine of not less than N10 million or both.”
The bill in part reads
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