SERAP threatens to sue FG over suspension of Channels TV’s Politics Today

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has threatened to sue the Federal Government over suspension of Channels TV’s Politics Today.

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) had earlier today imposed a fine of N5 million on Channels TV and suspended its Politics Today programme for granting an interview to Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
Acting Director General of the Commission, NBC, Professor Armstrong Idachaba in a letter to the Managing Director of Channels Television referred to Channels’ 7pm live broadcast programme of Sunday, 25th April, 2021, in which it accused the TV station of interviewing a leader of IPOB allegedly without “caution or reprimand.”

SERAP urged the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and the NBC to immediately reverse the arbitrary, unconstitutional and illegal decision to suspend Channels Television, and to impose a fine of N5 million on the station purportedly for breaching the broadcast code.”

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