''Our prisons will be filled with bloggers, critics and perceived political opponents if hate speech law is passed'' Shehu Sani - Risingsuntv

The outspoken senator believes the hate speech bill if
passed will be used to fight bloggers, political opponents
and critics of the government in power. He warned those
currently in power who are pushing for the bill to
remember that they will one day be out of power.





Sani
said this on his Facebook page this morning.
Most people in Power are intolerant to criticism
and allergic to dissent to be trusted with a capital
punishment for Hate speech.

The law against
Hate speech will be used against free
speech.Many critics and social media enthusiasts
will end up in the gallows.Our condemned cells in
the prisons will be filled with bloggers,critics and
perceived political opponents.We must fight Hate
speech,Hate speech is a real threat to
peace,unity and order of a nation but we must
protect free speech.

Free speech is the shield of
the oppressed.When you have state police and
you have capital punishment for Hate speech,you
will have tyranny and terror as a state
policy.

People in power should think twice about
what they do with power as someday they will be
out of power.A democratic state must balance its
security exigencies with its constitutional
obligations and moral duty to uphold the rule of
law and respect fundamental rights of its
citizens.

If you are in public office and you don’t
want to be criticized or challenged, please
dismount and go back to your family where you
can be an imperial emperor.