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    Be Warned! FG Orders Arrest and Prosecution of Nigerians Posting Tweets Following Twitter Ban

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    By AdeO on June 7, 2021 Legal, Social Media, Twitter

    The Nigerian Federal Government has now ordered federal prosecutors to arrest and prosecute users still sharing tweets on Twitter after a ban on the social media app.

    Nigeria’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami issued the directive on June 5 in a statement signed on his behalf by his spokesman, Dr. Umar Jibrilu Gwandu. 

    It read that Malami directed the Director of Public Prosecution of the Federation (DPPF) at the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, to “swing into action” and commence in earnest the process of prosecution of “violators” of the Federal Government De-activation of operations of Twitter in Nigeria.

    Further, the Attorney General directed the country’s communications regulator, NCC, and the Ministry of Communication and Digital Economy to collaborate with prosecutors “to ensure the speedy prosecution of offenders without any further delay”. 

    Nigeria suspends Twitter indefinitely

    Meanwhile, Nigeria’s Ministry of Information and Culture announced the “indefinite suspension” of Twitter’s operations in Nigeria on Friday, after the company deleted a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari that was widely perceived as offensive. Information Minister Lai Mohammed condemned the ‘persistent use’ of Twitter for activities allegedly capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence. He also questioned Twitter’s motives in Nigeria, saying, “the mission of Twitter in Nigeria is very very suspect”.

    Mohammed called Twitter’s mission in Nigeria “suspicious” and added that the US technology company has an agenda. Further, the Nigerian minister said that the social media firm had overlooked the tweets of leading secessionists in the nation. He went on to say that when people were burning police stations and killing policemen in Nigeria during ‘End SARS’, a decentralised social movement, then for Twitter it was about the right to protest. “But when a similar thing happened in the US, it became insurrection,” Mohammed said. 

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