Recently Senator Bala Ibn Na’Allah, a member of President
Muhammadu Buhari’s All People’s Congress party, seeks to
criminalize two types of behavior.

First, it proposes a sentence of up to seven years in prison
or a five million naira fine (US$25,000) for “anyone who
intentionally propagates false information that could
threaten the security of the country or that is capable
of inciting the general public against the government
through electronic message.”

Second, it seeks to criminalize anyone disseminating via
text message, Twitter, WhatsApp, or any other form of
social media an “abusive statement” intending to “set
the public against any person and group of persons,
an institution of government or such other bodies established by law.”
The penalty for this is up to two years in prison or a two million naira fine
(about US$10,000), or both.
Let make members of the Senate to face and tackle
problems that are making our young men and woman
to die in the desert of Niger and the ltalian sea of
Lampeduesa due to lack of employment and hope of
better life in Nigeria, innocent persons are being killed
in our Churches and Mosque by Boko Haram, Nigeria is
having housing deficit and lack manufacturing industries
primarily due to lack of constant electricity supply , 80%
of the goods we consume or use are imported including
petroleum products , within the last three months our
naira has remain depreciated. If change is to closed our
mouth and perpetually allow us to look up to foreign
countries for employment and consumable goods while
we remain in electricity darkness with long queue in our
petrol stations we will irresistibly say no to cruel change,
this social bill is not what we need at the moment, can
you imagine that in a country were people pay for electricity
not consumed as fixed charges Government can't sincerely
tell us it will pay the unemployed N5000, rather this money
if actually available should be used to give us free electricity
and build more refineries and stop importation of fuel,
please let join hands together to tell our Senate Members
to pass bills that are national interest and not group
interests, the "social media" bill is meant to protect a
fail government in the future and in the process a lots
of innocent social media activist will be sent to jail, let
say no to this bill, l foresee this government not making
any positive change at the end of four years, and the social
media is the tool we will use to shout out if this government
refuse to address critical issues such as unemployment,
Fixed charges and epileptic power supply , Lack of availability
of petrol, pot hole roads , flooded streets etc, before the next
election we will used the social media to review the the
performance of the government of GMB , therefore we
need social media freedom of speech as we did for GEJ.
the reason why the APC senator has move to present the "Anti-
Social Media Bill" is to silent social media activist from criticizing
the this APC government whom l think may not be able to
fulfill it campaign promises and meet
the expectations of the masses, let the APC senator government
know that what Nigerians need is a law that will enhance our welfare
and not re-peeling laws that are already in existence, currently there are laws
against defamation of character and so on, why should a senator whom we are paying
to represent us abandon, the enormous problems that we have as a country
and be disusing issues that of interest to a group of persons in government who don't
want to be told the truth, our senators should please pass laws that will enhance our
developmental strides, the strides of suitably qualified graduates who are
unemployed, the strides of business owners who lack constant electricity supply,
the stride of all well-meaning Nigerians that lack financial empowerment.

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They won't succeed with that bill or do they think we are in the stone age. The social media is the last hope of the common man and i put it to them that in an unjust society silence is a big crime...

I can't comment
I don't want to go to jail
Neither can i afford the fines
I can't comment
Will wait to see if or not the bill passes 1st
APC!!! Shege yaro

Nigeria is in the End Time

noted!

Mumu bill from a mumu senator.only in naija

I will be the first to break the rules and see what they will do. Useless mo®ons. Dead people are better than them.

I support the bill wholly. Maybe those who are guilty of posting fictitious stories and lies without verifiable evidences might not like it.
The social media has been abused over the years and it's negatives are likely to cause more harm than good so it's freedom should be checked.
Before you criticise Nigeria, go to place like China you'll discover that they banned the use of Facebook, Twitter and other social media outfits over the years to regulate freedom of access to information.
Moreover, the FOI act is there to aid and guide any curious mind

@Aufbauh
With the prevailing problems of epileptic power supply,
inability to refine petroleum products to meet domestic consumption needs,
devaluation of naira, Unemployment: Nigeria sitting on gun powder – Obasanjo
(http://thenationonlineng.net/unemployment-nigeria-sitting-on-gun-powder-obasanjo/)
Pot hole high ways (Benin City Lagos road and Benin City Abuja road) debating bill to control social media
means there is an alleged plot against the people, a plot not to satisfy the yearnings and
aspirations of the people, if care is not taken to address the above issues the gun powder must explode