A group under the aegis of CitizenGO has put up a petition to stop the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation, NBC from airing the Big Brother Naija Reality TV show.
The petition which was put up on February 20, 2017 has gathered over 3,000 signatures online.
The group according to the petition is aiming for 5,000 votes after which the National Broadcasting Commission, The Presidency and the public will be required to act on their demands.
In the petition, the non-governmental group listed the following grievances as reasons behind the petition:
“Big Brother Nigeria is a corruption of TV Reality shows. The Nigerian public is complaining about the moral perversity in the House of the Big Brother Nigeria. In one episode last two weeks or so, the inmates were shown openly kissing and caressing one another. This is a celebration of obscenity, eroticism and idleness.
“More importantly, it is a big mockery of Nigerian culture and tradition. Since the inmates are Nigerians, they should have been projecting the Nigerian cultural heritage. But instead of doing that, they are bastardizing it.
“The biggest tragedy of the on-going Big Brother Nigeria is that our children are also glued to the TV screen watching it. Children are our future. Therefore we should protect them from lewd exposure, which might prevent their growth into free, independent and well-developed citizens.
“The NBC must live up to its bidding as a body charged with controlling, monitoring, regulating the electronic media and monitoring of satellite transmission in Nigeria. Our TV stations cannot become dumping grounds for all sorts of immoral programs.”
