UPDATE: ABUJA COURT PROHIBITS NBC FROM IMPOSING FINE ON BROADCAST STATIONS
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) was prohibited from fining broadcast stations in the nation any further on Wednesday by the Federal High Court of Abuja.
Justice James Omotosho’s ruling nullified the N500,000 fines the NBC levied against 45 broadcast stations on March 1, 2019.
Justice Omotosho believed that because the NBC was not a court of law, it lacked the authority to penalize allegedly negligent broadcast stations with sanctions.
The commission did not follow the law when it sat as a complainant and, at the same time, a court and a judge on its own case, the judge said, adding that the court would not sit idly by and let a body impose a fine arbitrarily without regard to the law.
The ruling arose from a lawsuit brought by the Incorporated Trustees of Media Rights Agenda with the case number FHC/ABJ/CS/1386/2021.
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