{"id":171321,"date":"2019-11-28T11:02:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T09:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=171321"},"modified":"2019-11-28T10:03:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T09:03:06","slug":"hate-speech-bill-shehu-sani-reacts-as-nigerians-shut-down-national-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=171321","title":{"rendered":"Hate Speech Bill: Shehu Sani reacts as Nigerians shut down National Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2019\/11\/Hate-Speech-Bill-Shehu-Sani-reacts-as-Nigerians-shut-down.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Shehu Sani, former Senator representing Kaduna Central has commended Nigerians for protesting at the National Assembly over the controversial Hate Speech Bill.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST had reported that a group of Nigerians on Wednesday protested at the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters demanded the withdrawal of the bills on hate speech and internet manipulations.<\/p>\n<p>Deji Adeyanju, a civil activist, who led the protesters to the National Assembly gate, described the bills as \u201cobnoxious\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters carried placards bearing various inscriptions aimed at rejecting the bills.<\/p>\n<p>According to Adeyanju, the bills have no place in a democratic regime.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, Sani on Twitter wrote, \u201cThe Protests against the Social Media Bill and Hate Speech Bill is commendable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI salute the courage of the young men and women of conscience who lifted the torch and the fist of freedom to defend the rights to free speech.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shehu Sani, former Senator representing Kaduna Central has commended Nigerians for protesting at the National Assembly over the controversial Hate Speech Bill. DAILY POST had reported that a group of Nigerians on Wednesday protested at the National Assembly. The protesters demanded the withdrawal of the bills on hate speech and internet manipulations. Deji Adeyanju, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,1524],"class_list":["post-171321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-shehu-sani"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/171322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}