Channels’ Suspension: We’ll Not Watch Media Houses Be Threatened By Agencies – NGE

• The NBC ordered the immediate suspension of Channels TV’s Politics Today for allowing the spokesperson of IPOB to feature on the programme where he allegedly made inciting remarks

The Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, has condemned in strong terms the threat issued to Channels Television by the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, over an interview with the spokesperson of the proscribed Indigenes People of Biafra, IPOB, Emmanuel Powerful.

The Guild in a statement, on Monday, affirmed that it would not stand by and watch media houses being threatened by regulatory agencies.

“The Guild will not stand by and watch media houses being threatened by regulatory agencies in the country.

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“Press freedom is threatened when media houses are made operate in an atmosphere of fear.

“The Guild stands with Channels and will go to any length to defend press freedom in the country.

“The body of editors believes that the NBC is guilty of double standards because stations that carried Sheik Gumi’s parley with terrorists in their camps, were not sanctioned by the commission.”

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It also advised the broadcasting body to desist from issuing threats on trivial matters.

“The NBC should jettison the practice of issuing threats to broadcast stations over matters that could easily be dealt with through dialogue.

“Democracy will be meaningless in Nigeria if press freedom is eroded.”