His family, friends and all Nigerians have been asking: Where is Dadiyata? The pain his abduction continues to cause is better imagined.
Dadiyatta’s case is beyond the fight to identify the whereabouts and secure the safety of an individual, it is a fight to defend the right to freedom of expression in Nigeria. To keep quiet over the disappearance of Dadiyatta is to uphold the climate of fear currently pervading the Nigerian civic space.
We have seen an unhealthy obsession on the part of the government to over-regulate, or in a more direct description, stifle freedom of expression. Examples of recent relics of these attempts are the banning of Twitter, as well as bills popularly known as the Social Media Bill and the Hate Speech Bill in the National Assembly. The attempts to make the Minister of Information the sole controller of the media have been frightening.
In Dadiyata’s case, the government has denied having anything to do with his disappearance and it may sound like wise judgement to say fingers should not be pointed at the government for his disappearance since the details around his disappearance are inconclusive. However rational this argument appears, those fingers would still have to remain in the direction of the government, and rightly so.
This rain of unexplained arrests and disappearances of government critics is one we must discourage by asking all the hard questions in demanding accountability, transparency and justice from the government, before we all get drenched in it.
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