BREAKING: Nigerians Danger 10 Yr Jail Time period Over Failure To Recite New Nationwide Anthem

Home of Reps is looking for a 10-year jail time period or N5 million tremendous for Nigerians who refuse to recite the brand new nationwide anthem.

PoliticalNews Nigeria stories that the Home of Representatives has launched the Counter Subversion Invoice 2024, which goals to impose stringent penalties on Nigerians who fail to recite the nationwide anthem.

In response to the proposed laws, anybody discovered responsible of refusing to recite the nationwide anthem shall be fined N5 million, face a 10-year jail sentence, or each.

Anybody who destroys a nationwide image or a spot of worship shall be liable to the identical punishment.

The Invoice, sponsored by Speaker Tajudeen Abbas, is about for its second studying, the place its basic rules might be debated. The Invoice “stipulates that anybody discovered responsible of destroying nationwide symbols, refusing to recite the nationwide anthem and pledge, defacing a spot of worship with intent to incite violence, or undermining the Federal Authorities shall face a tremendous of N5 million, a 10-year jail sentence, or each”.

The Invoice additionally “states that anybody who units up an unlawful roadblock, performs unauthorised site visitors duties, imposes an unlawful curfew, or organises an illegal procession might be topic to a tremendous of N2 million, 5 years in jail, or each upon conviction”. Additionally, any one who “forcefully takes over anyplace of worship, city corridor, faculty, premises, public or non-public place, area, or an analogous place via duress, undue affect, subterfuge or different related actions, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a tremendous of N5 million or imprisonment for a time period of 10 years or each”.

“An individual who professes loyalty, pledges or agrees to belong to an organisation that disregards the sovereignty of Nigeria, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a tremendous of N3 million or imprisonment for a time period of 4 years or each,” it additionally added amongst others.

In Might, President Bola Tinubu signed into regulation the invoice to revert to Nigeria’s previous nationwide anthem which was dropped by a navy authorities in 1978.

The newly re-adopted anthem, which begins “Nigeria, We Hail Thee,” was written by Lillian Jean Williams in 1959 and composed by Frances Berda.