A renowned international Islamic scholar, Asheikh Professor Muhammad Sani Umar Rijiyar Lemu has cautioned Media Houses to desist from publicising acts of crimes and other immoral acts in their respective media organisations.
The islamic said that giving criminals publicity is akin to glorifying them and that such acts are capable of influencing other criminals that are committing lesser crimes to graduate to much higher crimes by adopting what an arrested criminals narrated as their methods of operations and publicised by media organisations.
Professor Rijiyar Lemu, who sounded the caution at the ongoing annual 2025 Ramadan Tafseer in Gwallaga Mosque Bauchi, said that, a situation where media organisations or security operatives cajoled arrested criminals into giving a gory details of their modus operandi in carrying out crimes like murder, kidnapping, robbery, rape, sodomy and other immoral acts, amounts to publicising such crimes and making it attractive to some dubious people in the society.
Riyar Lemu also preached that Allah (SWA) frowns at the act of glorifying crimes and other immoral acts through publicity within society.
The scholar advises media organisations that their focus should be channel in publicising the punishment rather than the crime so that it could serve as a deterrent to others that may likely find that path attractive.
"It is now very common to hear or read about victims or culprits of crimes like sodomy, incest, prostitution, lesbianism, rape in radio, television or print media, prompted by journalists or security operatives, giving graphic details of what happened during such despicable acts".
“Publicising such graphic accounts makes some of these crimes attractive to some dubious minds and so, such immoral acts in the society will keep increasing".
“Allow the law to take it's course, without necessarily publicising such immoral acts in the society", said Rijiyar Lemu.
The Prof. then admonished media organisations and practitioners to always exercise restraint in the course of practicing their profession so that they don’t incur the wreath of Allah (SWA).
Our correspondent reports that, the cleric, who took his reading in verse two of Suratul Nur, supported his sermon with relevant quotations from the Holy Qur’an and the Hadiths of Prophet Muhammad (SAW).
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