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Disclosing
this in a statement signed by the National President, Chris Isiguzo,
NUJ opined that NBC’s action was ill timed and reckless.
 Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ has faulted the decision of the
National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, to revoke the licenses of 52
broadcast stations nationwide.
NUJ described the decision as hasty.
Recall that the licences were revoked over indebtedness.
Disclosing this in a statement signed by the National President,
Chris Isiguzo, NUJ opined that NBC’s action was ill timed and reckless.
Recall that the Director General of the Commission, Malam Balarabe
Ilelah, had said the 52 affected stations owed about N2.6 billion debt
since 2015.
He noted that the Commission had in May 2022 published in the
national dailies the names of stations that were yet to renew their
licence and granted them two weeks to renew their licenses and pay their
debt or get their licenses revoked, frequencies withdrawn and
reassigned to others who were ready to abide by the necessary
requirements.
Three months down the line, Balarabe said that some licences were
yet to pay their outstanding debt in contravention of the Commission’s
act CAP N11, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, particularly
section 10(a) of the third schedule of the Act.
In view of this NBC on Friday revoked their licenses and ordered the shutdown of the stations.
Reacting to this NUJ argued that: “The decision today by
Industry Regulator , the National Broadcasting Commission – NBC, to
revoke the licenses of 52 broadcast stations nationwide over
indebtedness to the Commission was ill advised.
“The affected stations, according to NBC are said to owe arrears of licence fees amounting to N2.6 billon since 2015.
“Although the Director General of NBC, Malam Balarabe Shehu
Ilelah claimed that this development had no political motives, yet we
insist that the action was ill timed and reckless.
“It should be noted that this wholesale revocation of licences
at this critical time of insecurity in the Country appears to be a
decision taken without careful prior deliberation, consultation or
counsel.
“While we regret the inability of these broadcast stations to
fulfill their obligations to NBC, in-view of dwindling resources, we
caution against such large scale clampdown of broadcast stations in
disregard to security issues and the attendant consequence. We cannot
afford the unpleasant outcome of such media blackout at this time.
“We call on NBC to exercise more restraint on this issue in
consideration of national security and allow for more dialogue and
consultation to find a better way of dealing with the situation.” |
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