A bill intended to make TV more focused in the nation was gone through second perusing in the House of Representatives Thursday.
The bill supported by Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Nnena Elendu-Ukeje is titled " a bill for an Act to change the National Broadcast Commission Act top N11, laws of the organization of Nigeria, 2014, to accommodate rivalry in Nigeria, advance proficiency and Expand open doors for Nigerians' investment in world markets while in the meantime perceive the part of outside consummation in Nigeria, and for different matters related thereto."
Elendu-Ukeje while talking on the bill said it is intended to reinforce the National Broadcast Commission as a free controller.
By, the bill will likewise make space for rivalry through deregulation, liberalization, privatization, guaranteeing free market operation furthermore uphold penalty(s) to gatherings that conflict with the procurements of the law.
The bit of enactment, she said, will counteract cost or rate altering, value separation , prohibitive selective substance, misuse of overwhelming business sector position, and illegal boycotting.
The proposed law, she said, is a solution for the undeniable lacuna in the NBC Act and fortifies the NBC as Nigeria has no arrangement of systematized laws that addresses the topic.
Her words: "this is one area that does not experience the ill effects of client lack of awareness as this division has been liable to movements/petitions on the floor of parliament and suits in the court of law.
"Equity Chukwujeku Aneke of the a government High Court had on May 28th 2015 released a suit against DSTV over expansion in membership expenses as Nigeria is yet to have a systematized set of standards advancing rivalry in that market.
"Rivalry laws exist under various names in various climes. From antitrust law in the US to against syndication laws in China and Russia, and Trade law in the UK and Australia, the fundamental component for these laws us customer insurance."By, Fourth Schedule, Section 39(1) of the constitution of the government republic of Nigeria states explicitly that each individual should be qualified for own, build up and work any medium for the dispersal of data.
She said the foundation went further in Section 16(2c) that "the state should direct its arrangement towards guaranteeing that the monetary framework is not worked in such a way as to allow the convergence of riches or the method for generation and trade in the hands of couple of people or amasses.
"The intendment of these two procurements is that by changing correspondence and media, that the part be focused in accordance with our financial strategies."The bill went through second perusing without civil argument when the Speaker, Hon. Yakubu Dogara required a voice vote.
