What To Do with The Protection From Internet Falsehood and Manipulations Bill

government, democracy avails humanity the right to make known to the public inner thoughts and opinions, regardless of the substances or absurdities thereof.

Riding the levers of constitutional guarantee of freedom of expression, some folks whose skills are for hire to the highest bidder had at one time or the other, fed the public with half-truths and outright falsehoods, with attendant repercussions. In a country where the line between politics and governance remains blur, libellous publications have appeared time and again, especially on social media to negatively portray occupiers of elective offices and other sensitive positions.

The lawmaker has consistently insisted that the bill, when passed into law, would help the journalism profession in ridding itself of quacks that take advantage of the internet to give the noble profession a bad name. Information according to Senator Musa, is key in the actualization of the social contract between the government and the governed, stressing however that falsehoods would only portray the former in bad light in the eyes of the latter.

“While there is a need to control the spread of false information, the danger lies in being a victim of the relativity of the interpretation of the terms “Falsehood” and “Truth,” which not only gives the government a monopoly on the truth but violates the enshrined constitutional rights to freedom of expression.”

Commendably, in introducing the bill, the distinguished Senator acknowledged that he is borrowing from a Singaporean experience in respect of similar law. It is common practice for nations to model their laws after those of other nations. Historically, Nigerian laws have had the trials of being adopted or modelled after pre-existing laws from other nations.

In the same vein, the criminal code applicable in Southern Nigeria is derived from the Australian Queensland Criminal Code of 1899.

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