The Federal Government says it is working on how to sanitise social media which, it says, is currently out of control.
Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, who disclosed this at a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday, said no responsible government would sit back and allow such activities capable of setting the country on fire to continue unchecked
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He said it has reached a level that “the government may just no longer fold its arms and allow this to continue”.
Mohammed also said the government would go-ahead to implement tougher sanctions for broadcast stations that breach the nation’s broadcast code, especially regarding the dissemination of fake news and inciting and divisive comments.
He said no amount of attacks or criticism would stop the government from implementing the sanctions approved by President Muhammadu Buhari recently.
He assured that responsible journalists have nothing to fear as the government’s intention was not to gag the media but to restore sanity to the nation’s airwave.
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