This report that Lil Kesh’s Shoki had been
banned but I seriously doubted this news and decided not to report it
till the report was confirmed.
Well, I’m happy to announce that as I expected, it wasn’t banned.
Following reports that Lil Kesh‘s song, Shoki
has been banned by the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation(NBC), the NBC
has responded through its official Twitter account that the song has not
been outrightly banned.
Although the broadcast regulator mentioned
that the song was not banned, a radio station was reportedly sanctioned
for playing a club version of the song during the ‘Family Time’ belt,
the period when children have access to the mass media like TV and
radio.
The NBC statement goes thus: ‘We
at the National Broadcasting Commission can confirm there was no such
ban. A club version of the song cannot be played on radio. The club
version contains vulgar lyrics which was played around 9am which is
considered as ‘family time’.
‘There is a
broadcast code to follow by every broadcast station and this station
failed to comply. This said station has been sanctioned for playing a
club version during family time. We at the NBC did not ban ‘Shoki’- by
Lil Kesh. We simply asked the suitable broadcast version to be played on
the radio.’
Find the tweets below: -
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We at the NBC did not ban “Shoki”- by @mynameiskesh. We simply asked the suitable broadcast version to be played on the radio.
4:45 PM – 19 Sep 2014
— nbcgovng(@nbcgovng) September 19, 2014
A club version of the song cannot be played on radio. @lilkesh_YBNL
— nbcgovng(@nbcgovng) September 19, 2014
The club version contains vulgar lyrics
which was played around 9am which is considered as “family
time”.@lilkesh_ybnl @ToolzO @notjustok
— nbcgovng(@nbcgovng) September 19, 2014
The station that aired the club version
was asked to play only a suitable broadcast version of the
song. @lilkesh_YBNL@notjustok @ToolzO
— nbcgovng(@nbcgovng) September 19, 2014
This said station has been sanctioned for playing a club version during family time. @ToolzO @notjustok@lilkesh_YBNL
— nbcgovng(@nbcgovng) September 19, 2014
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We at the NBC did not ban “Shoki”- by @mynameiskesh. We simply asked the suitable broadcast version to be played on the radio.
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