The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Daily Trust would face sanctions for their documentaries on terrorism and banditry in Nigeria, the government of President Muhammadu Buhari announced on Thursday.
In a speech in Abuja, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, accused BBC of portraying terrorists’ faces as Nollywood stars.
The minister claimed that the news outlets would not get away with the terrorist interviews.
Muhammad also said that the platforms would receive the proper punishment.
The minister said, “Let me assure you, they will not get away with this naked glorification of terrorism and banditry in Nigeria,” Mohammad said.
“When otherwise reputable platforms like BBC give their platform to terrorists, showing their faces as if they’re Nollywood stars… I want to assure them that they won’t get away with it, and the appropriate sanctions will be meted out. out”
Recall that in an interview with the BBC, a bandit commander admitted that the N60 million ransom paid by the Federal Government for the release of the schoolgirls kidnapped in February 2021 from the Government Girls Secondary School in Jangebe town in Zamfara State was used to purchase more weapons.
Also questioned was Ado Aleru, a prominent Fulani gang leader wanted by Katsina authorities for orchestrating a massacre in the town of Kadisau in June 2020.
