By David Kabiyesi
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has fumed against N5 million fine slammed on CHANNELS Television by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) following an interview conducted with Labour Party vice presidential candidate Datti Baba-Ahmed.
Soyinka exonerated the TV station and maintained that the penalty was metted out from the angle of injustice, while urging the nation to rid itself of tyranny.
“To sustain that penalty is to give joy to others who turn Internet into a soakaway for their rancid emissions, yet feel that others should be silenced. If CHANNELfeells up to it, I offer myself willing to engage Mr. Datti – or any nominee of his – on its platform on this very bone of contention – one-on-one – without the malodorous intervention of media trolls, and with the same interviewer as mediator. That should be taken as a serious offer.
“Do I still believe in it? I am no longer certain but – first, we must rid ourselves of the tyranny of the ignorant and the opportunism of time servers,” Soyinka said.
