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Private legal practitioner and host of the current affairs programme Newsfile, Samson Lardy Anyenini, has renewed calls for the repeal of Section 208 of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29), arguing that the law has become a tool for suppressing free expression and dissent. In a detailed legal commentary titled “The Abronye Charge Sheet – misuse in plain sight,” Mr Anyenini described the provision criminalising the publication of false news likely to cause fear and alarm as a “colonial-era relic” that should have been abolished together with criminal and seditious libel laws in 2001.
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