Mobile network providers currently operating in the country are believed to be assisting the Police to arrest journalists over alleged offences, IFE OGUNFUWA reports Conversations and messages on mob
ile devices are no longer confidential. They have become tools in the hands of law enforcement agents in Nigeria for the purpose of apprehending journalists.
The Senate had also made several attempts to pass legislations that regulate online conversations on social media through a ‘Protection from Internet Falsehoods and Manipulations and Other related Matters Bill 2019’, which recommended three years imprisonment and a maximum fine of N10 million for offenders.
Omoyele Sowore, Olawale Bakare and Agba Jalingo are other well-known media practitioners who were arrested and kept in detention for more than three months at a stretch for criticising the government. The Executive Director, Paradigm Initiative, Gbenga Sesan, said the act of obtaining call records of subscribers without consent was an infringement on their fundamental human rights.
Sesan lamented that the fundamental rights of Nigerians to privacy was trampled upon by those who shared an innocent person’s call information without providing convincing evidence. “Dasuki once held such powers that are now being used against him. So everyone who holds the trust of the citizens in a position of power must know that the evil they spread will haunt them soon.”
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