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Press Freedom – Paradigm Initiative Condemns Blocking of Peoples Gazette by FG No ratings yet.

The clamp down on the media in Nigeria continues because of the skepticism of citizens, institutions, and the victims of these violations to engage the judicial system to seek redress

Adeyemi Okediran by Adeyemi Okediran
January 30, 2021
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Paradigm Initiative, PIN, has condemned the attack on the media and freedom of expression, as evident in the blockage of Peoples Gazette, an online news platform.

PIN in a press statement signed by its Communication Officer, Valery Njiaba stressed that attempts at shutting down the press are illegal and a violation of the freedom of expression.

Peoples Gazette had on the 27th of January 2021, asked the government to restore the news platform for public access. Peoples Gazette noted the coordinated disruption of their service on all telecommunications networks in Nigeria.

PG claimed that it is a directive from the Nigerian government, specifically the Nigerian Communications Commission, to blacklist their web address alongside other domain names which is unacceptable.

Reacting to this, PIN stressed that, “Freedom of the press is one of the cornerstones of democracy, one that we must fiercely protect. Any attempt at shutting down the press is outrightly illegal and a violation of the freedom of expression, including the freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart ideas and information without inference, protected by section 39 (1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (As amended).

“It further dampens the fundamental objectives contained in Section 22 of the Constitution that gives the press, and other agencies of the mass media the duty to uphold the responsibility and accountability of the government.”

PIN also accused the current dispensation of the recurring attack on the media, stressing that, “this administration, has in many ways proven to be against press freedom and internet freedom carrying out moves interpreted as a clampdown on democracy, in a democratic system.”

Paradigm initiative in its consistent commitment to protect and defend digital rights condemns in the strongest terms these acts by the Nigerian government through the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). We have engaged the NCC in the past on the same subject and we will continue to do so.

“We must continue to actively engage the system to preserve all the elements that make us a democracy. Our tool as a people remains the law and must engage the law for our country to work for us.

“Notably, the clamp down on the media in Nigeria continues because of the skepticism of citizens, institutions, and the victims of these violations to engage the judicial system to seek redress.

“All hands need to be on deck to push back on what has now become the government’s playbook in shutting down opposing voices. Paradigm Initiative and many other concerned organizations are willing to support platforms that are victims of government censorship to get judicial redress.

PIN thereby called on “Nigerians to support these efforts at curtailing the excesses of the government and its attack on the freedom of the press and the Internet.

“We equally urge the Nigerian authorities to respect and enforce their citizens’ right to access to information, the rights of freedom of expression and opinion as assured and protected by the 1999 Nigerian Constitution (as amended).”

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