He said that the Federal Government had also been ordered by the ECOWAS court to change the clause in order to comply with Nigerians' right to free speech.
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has stated that the Nigerian police and other security agencies lack the power to arrest, detain and prosecute Nigerian citizens for the so-called offences of "cyberstalking" ''insult" "causing annoyance" and "criminal intimidation." Falana noted in a release on Thursday that consequently, all pending cases filed on the basis of the repealed aspects of section 24 of the Cybercrime Act 2015 "should be discontinued without any further delay."
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Nigeria's capital territory, has admitted a social media influencer, Chude Nnamdi, to bail in the sum of N10million for alleged cyberstalking. The police had arraigned Nnamdi before Justice Gladys Olotu, on a one-count charge of cyberstalking in charge marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/130/2023, with Inspector-General of Police as complainant and Nnamdi as sole defendant.