The Nationwide Broadcasting Charge, recently, August 3, 2022, imposed a 5 Million Naira (N5,000,000.00) sanction, each, on Multichoice Nigeria Restricted, owners of DSTV, TelCom Satellite tv for pc Restricted (TSTV); NTA- Startimes Restricted; for the carriage of the documentary by the BBC AFRICA EYE titled, “BANDIT WARLORDS OF ZAMFARA” which glorified the actions of Bandits and undermines Nationwide Security in Nigeria.

Have faith-TV Community Restricted used to be also fined 5 Million Naira (N5,000,000.00) for its documentary titled: “NIGERIA’S BANDITARY-THE INSIDE STORY”.

Whereas appreciating the need of educating, informing, and enlightening the public on disorders bordering on traits and happenings internal and outdoors the Country, the Charge desires to capture this different to explain broadcasters to be circumspect and deliberate in the need and carriage of contents deleterious to Nigeria’s Nationwide safety.

In consequence, the airing and carriage of these documentaries, contravened the provisions of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code, Sixth edition, in particular, the underlisted Sections:

3.1.1: “No broadcast shall attend or incite to crime. consequence in public dysfunction or disfavor, be terrifying to public feelings or absorb offensive reference to any particular person or organization, alive or uninteresting or in general be disrespectful to human dignity”;

3.12.2: “The broadcaster shall now not transmit a programme that incites or more likely to incite to violence among the many populace, inflicting mass dismay, political and social upheaval, safety breach and general social dysfunction; and

3.11.2: “The Broadcaster will likely be trudge that law enforcement is upheld the least bit cases in a system depicting that law and explain are socially superior to, or extra tremendous than crime or anarchy.”

The imposed penalties on these Broadcast Media platforms and Jam is to be remitted now not later than August 30, 2022. Failure to follow this might presumably perchance consequence in the imposition of a elevated sanction as equipped in the Code.

Broadcasters are enjoined to be instruments of Nationwide cohesion and desist from falling into antics of the employ of their platforms to promote and glamorize subversive formulation and their actions.

Please listing that every Broadcast Jam or platform is accountable for the Explain material it transmits or transmitted on its platform, and will likely be held liable for any say in violation of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code.

Signed:

Balarabe Shehu Ilelah

Director-Overall

August 3, 2022