Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, says” neoliberal economic policies” of the Bretton Woods Institutions are fostering poverty in the country.
Falana said this in Lagos at the launch of a report by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), on Thursday.
He said the Federal Government is determined to silence the media in order to hide information about corruption and insecurity from Nigerians.
“Government is also determined to hide from us the fact that our country has been captured by the IMF and the World Bank whose neoliberal economic policies have continued to promote poverty in our country,” Falana said.
Falana also condemned the N5 million fine imposed on Channels Television for interviewing the spokesperson of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on ‘Politics Today, adding that it
did not allow for fair hearing, as stipulated in NBC ACT.
“The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has became the judge, the witness and sole prosecutor in its own court, tried the channel in absentia, convicted the media organisation” he said.
“This is very alien, the conduct of NBC can not be justified under the provision of the Nigerian constitution and African charter.”
