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Hate speech bill has no connection with 3rd term agenda – Senate
The Senate has quelled insinuations held in some quarters that the bill seeking the prohibition of hate speech is connected with the alleged third term agenda of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Spokesman for the Senate, Godiya Akwashiki, while speaking with journalists in Abuja on Monday, said the People’s Democratic Party’s (PDP) allegation that the anti-hate speech bill was collaboration between the Senate and Buhari to achieve a third term agenda was far from the truth.
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“The anti-hate speech bill has nothing to do with any hidden agenda from the executive and the Senate will apply all its legislative mechanism on it in deciding its usefulness for Nigerians or not ,” he said.
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