A former Minister of Aviation in Nigeria, Femi Fani-Kayode, has expressed his dissatisfaction with the threat by the Federal Government to sanction Trust TV and BBC over their documentaries on bandits.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that speaking with newsmen on Thursday, Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said the documentaries promoted terrorism in the country.
Mohammed said the appropriate regulatory body was already looking at the infractions and appropriate sanctions would be meted to both platforms.
Reacting via his verified Twitter handle on Thursday night, Fani-Kayode, a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), pointed out that it is a common practice all over the world to investigate terrorism and speak to leaders of outlawed groups.
“It baffles me that the FG or anyone else should complain about the interview that the BBC granted to a murderous, notorious and wicked Nigerian terrorist. This is not the first or the last time this sort of thing will happen and frankly it is common place all over the world,” Fani-Kayode said.
“Foreign mediums interviewed Osama Bin Ladin, the leader of Al Qaeda too just as they aired the interviews and messages of evil men like Mohammed Al Baghdadi, the founder of ISIS and Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram. Thankfully these evil men were all eventually killed by security forces so they were no longer in a position to grant any self-serving interviews. That is the best and only way to silence such barbaric creatures and erase their evil message from the psyche of humanity.
“It is true that the Brits did not allow the IRA to be granted interviews on British Television but that did not stop them from being interviewed and aired by foreign mediums and international television networks outside of the UK. Even American local and international television networks interviewed IRA leaders regularly.”
