Islamic human rights organisation, Muslim Rights Concern,
has called on the Federal Government of Nigeria to ban television reality show,
Big Brother Naija, just as the government banned microblogging site Twitter.
MURIC Director, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, in a chat with The
PUNCH on Saturday, described the programme as an “abomination”, an “exhibition
of nudity” and “an invitation to chaos and insecurity” because it allegedly
seeks to mislead youths.
BBNaija, which made a return for a sixth season last month,
has already topped previous seasons as MultiChoice Nigeria announced a grand
prize of N90m.
This year’s season is tagged, ‘Shine Ya Eye’ with Ebuka
Obi-Uchendu as the host for the show. The show requires housemates to be camped
in a building for weeks. They are assigned tasks and some bonding occurs in
between.
‘Reality show can’t
make Nigeria great’
Akintola lamented that Nigerian youths have missed it with
the advent of BBNaija.
He said, “We (MURIC) issued statements on it in the past two
years. BBNaija is an abomination. The problem we have in this country is that
people don’t learn lessons from past mistakes. We tend to idolize idleness and
immorality. We pick thugs as heroes and ritualists as our models.
“Our youths today have missed the road; what they are
interested in is not what can make the country great. What do we get to gain
from open vulgarity, open nudity, the spread of shamelessness?
“BBNaija is an exhibition of licentiousness. It is a pity.
There used to be a time in this country when the military and the police would
compel badly dressed, indecently dressed women and even men to go back home and
dressed properly.
“But now, we are
encouraging it so badly that we allow it to be displayed openly on television.
The parents are not at home, the children are watching BBNaija, it is an
invitation to chaos.”
‘Pastors, Imams
should speak against TV programme’
Akintola also urged Pastors and Imams to speak to their
followers, adding that the Qur’an and the Bible are against what is being
demonstrated openly in the Big Brother Naija house.
“Now, we are crying over insecurity, immorality, indecency
that we are the ones who invited it. We all should come together – Muslim
clerics, Christian clergy, we should come together and demonstrate openly
against BBNaija. Neither the Qur’an nor the Bible encourages it. We should not
keep silent,” he stated.
‘NBC should wake up’
The MURIC director further urged the National Broadcasting
Commission to wake up to its regulatory function and ban the show.
He said, “The government should ban BBNaija, the people are
the government and there are no people without the youths. BBNaija is
misleading the youths, BBNaija will encourage robbery, it will encourage
insecurity, BBNaija is awarding millions of naira to young guys, awarding free
cars and making young ones to salivate back home, wishing they had something
like that sudden wealth.
“The Federal Government should wake up because no state
government can ban it. If the Federal Government ban BBNaija, it will be like
Twitter, which will be good riddance to bad rubbish. Twitter was banned for
promoting insecurity and BBNaija should be banned for promoting immorality,
indecency and corruption. We are fighting corruption; it will be part of our
fight against corruption to ban BBNaija; it is national disgrace.
“The NBC should wake up and listen to the cries of parents.
NBC should act responsibly; it appears to be sleeping. NBC should wake up.”
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