A bill seeking a two-year jail term for any person who makes allegation or publishes any statement or petition in the newspaper, radio or medium of whatever description against another person, institutions of government or any public office holder, passed second reading in the Senate, yesterday.
The bill also prescribed that anybody or group of persons who send any false text message or post false message on the social media against another person shall be jailed for two years upon conviction by the law court.
But the bill provides for an option of N4 million for persons convicted of false newspaper, radio and television statements and N2 million for offenders of false phone text messages or messages on Facebook, twitter, Instagram, or WhatsApp.
MyTake:
Idi Amin once said, "' I can guarantee you freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee you freedom after speech." The Senate just proposed 2 years sentence for offenders of abusive sentence on social media. If you think of it in a rush, it is an abuse of freedom of speech, but if you give it a second thought, it is the only way to stop attention seeking politicians who cannot simply accept the fact that they were out-played and beaten to their own game, but instead find the social media as an opportunity to further show their incompetence and illiteracy. At least now, those who understand how to use sarcasm will thrive, throwing shit and making it look like chocolate and those who cannot will simply eat the shit.
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