Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Hassan Kukah, has asked Nigerians to fight the Social Media Regulation Bill with all their energy, saying the bill is “redundant, stale, superfluous and a fraud.”
In a statement made available to newsmen on Thursday, Bishop Kukah explained that a people who suffered poor governance would use different avenues to express their frustration, which he said had made everyone victims of hate speech.
Kukah said: “The greatest expression of hate is those who use the power in their hands to divide us by favouring or excluding others based on religion, gender, political affiliation or social class.
“Surely, unscrupulous and immoral theft of humongous resources belonging to all of us by our politicians is more damaging to our society than any hate speech. The government has all the laws it needs to fight any form of crime and individuals can fall back on it.
“This bill is redundant, stale, superfluous and a fraud. We must fight it with all our energy. It is rotten yoghurt being marketed beyond its expiration date. We should reject it as a totalitarian attempt to circumscribe our hard-earned freedom.”