The ECOWAS court of Justice in Abuja has restrained the Federal Government and its agents from arresting or prosecuting Nigerians who are making use of social media platform, Twitter, which was suspended by Nigeria two weeks ago.
The Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, had threatened to arrest and prosecute Nigerians who were using Virtual Private Network to bypass the suspension of Twitter. Civil Society Organisation, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, and 176 concerned Nigerians, however, instituted a suit before the ECOWAS court, arguing that the unlawful suspension of Twitter in Nigeria, criminalisation of Nigerians and other people using Twitter had escalated repression of human rights and unlawfully restricted the rights of Nigerians and other people to freedom of expression, access to information, and media freedom in the country.
SERAP Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, said in a statement that in a landmark ruling on Tuesday, the ECOWAS court restrained the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari , and its agents from “unlawfully imposing sanctions or doing anything whatsoever to harass, intimidate, arrest or prosecute Twitter or any other social media service provider, media houses, radio, television broadcast stations, the plaintiffs and other Nigerians who are Twitter users, pending the hearing and...
The court gave the order after hearing arguments from Solicitor to SERAP, Femi Falana , and lawyer to the government Maimuna Shiru.
This govt will soon ban ECOWAS
They do not answer to yoi 😀😀😀
ecowas_cedeao Court thanks for upholding rule of law and human rights in the face of the antidemocratic actions of a fascist and feudualist fulani ruler in the garb of a president of Nigeria
FG has no choice.
Lol... Who do they want to prosecute before?
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Na Win, Win all the time. OnyeDot KeepitOn
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sadly,court orders mean no'in in the eyes of the oppresive rulers in charge in Nigeria,in fact,flouting court orders seem to be their unsaid manifesto
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