The Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria has described the wanton destruction of multi billion Naira equipment of the Daar Communications Plc, the owners of African Independent Television (AIT) situated in Port-Harcourt by the Rivers State Government as executive lawlessness, flagrant violation of the rule of law and ominous signal to democracy.
Penpushing reports that the Executive Secretary of Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON) Dr Yemisi Bamgbose in a statement on Monday said the body recalled that the dispute on the said land between Daar Communications and Rivers State Government is still pending before a court of competent jurisdiction.
The statement observed that the demolition carried out by the agent of Rivers State Government under the watch of security agents is not only a demonstration of subjugation calculated to inflict devastating injury on Daar Communications in particular, but also a brazen exhibition of dictatorial power and deployment of crook method aimed at silencing the media.
‘It is unbelievable that Rivers State Government will at this time compound the challenges posed by the sudden death of the founder of Daar Communications, Late High Chief Raymond Dokpesi’, the statement said
Penpushing further reports that Bamgbose, however, called on the Nigerian Government to wade into the issues, stressing that the action of the Rivers State Government was a deliberate violation of the rule of law.
‘We call on the Federal Government to wade into this matter of deliberate violation of the rule of law by branches of government using Federal Government apparatus to intimidate the media and their tendencies for disregarding the order of the Court of the land’, Bamgbose wrote.
Penpushing also reports that Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON) in the same vein called on the Rivers State Government to stop the harassment of the Daar Communications group and allow the court to determine the legality of the matter.
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