The Director-general of National
Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Ishaq Kawu, has accused some supporters of
President Muhammadu Buhari in Kano State of violating the broadcast code.
Speaking at a stakeholders’ forum
on Thursday, Kawu said when a radio station was penalised, some politicians
told Buhari that the action was taken against the station out of its support
for him.
He, however, said the stations
broke the code through “unbalanced programmes, unsubstantiated remarks and
phone-in programmes where the audience get direct access to the studio without
screening”.
“There are some people who
associated themselves with President Muhammadu Buhari and uttered
unsubstantiated and unfounded remarks on radio,” he said.
“When NBC sanctioned the radio
station, the politicians moved to villa and lodged a complaint that NBC fined a
station for supporting Buhari,” he added.
On his part, Attahiru Jega,
former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), said
in 2015, Kano was saved from crisis after the commission lodged a complaint to
NBC.
“It is the prompt intervention of
INEC that saved the state from crisis. But when INEC lodged a complaint to NBC
on the incidence, the commission fined the station alone,” Jega said.
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