By our Reporter
The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) on Friday has disclosed is plan to appeal against the court judgement nullifying its powers to fine broadcast stations for breaching its broadcasting codes.
It also said that the judgement delivered by the Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday conflicted with a previous court decision. The agency did not give details.
“The commission will appeal against the judgement when found to be in conflict with the previous judgement of the court, which empowers the commission to regulate broadcasting in Nigeria,” the Director-General of the agency, Balarabe Ilelah, said in a statement on Friday.
Suggesting that his agency had yet to be served a copy of the judgement to be certain about its next line of action, Mr Ilelah said “global best practice and the ethics of the legal profession,” prevented parties to a suit from commenting freely “on a judgement it has not seen and read”.
He also did not say if NBC would comply with the verdict for the time being.
The Federal High Court in Abuja handed down the order of perpetual injunction in a judgement on Wednesday, cancelling NBC’s powers to impose a fine on broadcast stations.