Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has said Nigerian laws cannot be subservient to international laws.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Mohammed stated this in his presentation at an ongoing public hearing by the House of Representatives Committee on Information to amend National Broadcasting Commission, (NBC) Act.
The minister apparently referring to the imbroglio between the Federal Government and Twitter in his presentation vehemently resisted domestication of international laws in Nigeria.
“It’s true that we are part of the Telecoms Union treaty but our laws cannot be subservient to the Telecoms treaty because of our peculiar nature has to be considered,” Mohammed said.
He further explained that Section 2C talks about the commission, says we can receive, process application of radio, cable television, direct satellite but I want to add specifically including all online to be included.
He was reminded by Reps that Twitter should be included and the minister quickly replied “yes including Twitter”.