Attorney General Abubakar Malami says the push to prosecute Nigerian Twitter users after President Muhammadu Buhari regime’s ban on the microblogging platform will deter other violators.

Nigeria’s information minister Lai Mohammed on June 4 announced the indefinite suspension of Twitter in Nigeria for double standards, alleging that Nigerians used Twitter to spread false information.

Barely 24 hours after the ban, Mr Malami sought to enforce the ban by threatening to arrest and prosecute anyone who tweets in Nigeria.

To circumvent the ban, which came without recourse to any existing law, Nigerians have been downloading VPNs and other browsers with built-in protocols that obscure their location.

“The essence of the law is to achieve stability in the country” and prosecution “will serve as a deterrence to others,” Mr Malami told the Committee to Protect Journalists via a messaging app on Tuesday.

Mr Buhari, despite the continued condemnation of his decision by the country’s major opposition party, the PDP, human rights activists, legal practitioners, and the international community, has remained adamant.

Justice minister Malmai said even though Nigeria upheld rights to free speech, such freedom “has never been absolute, unqualified and unrestrained.”

Meanwhile, Mr Malami was caught using a virtual private network (VPN) to bypass the regime’s access restriction to log into the microblogging site on Tuesday.

He gleefully announced the deactivation of his Twitter account on Facebook, not minding that he broke an order laid by Mr Buhari.

The Twitter ban followed the social media platform’s deletion of Mr Buhari’s ‘genocidal’ post against recalcitrant Igbos amidst ongoing violent attacks, especially on security forces and government facilities.

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If dis government na hunters..dem go dey kill bush meat everyday...dem like hunting die.

They should start from malami before we can take them serious.

We dey wait the arrest starting from El rufai

Keep digging the hole that your regime will sink into - daft set of leaders.

Hypocrites.....i dare them!

Unseriouse peeps

I don't even use Twitter that much sef (too much negativity) it's YouTube ban that will make me protest

I hope the cow will start the prosecution from himself because he used VPN to access Twitter too.

Nama

I hope it will prosecute Malami also for flaunting the lawless law.

We will start with the useless AGF first. Omo ale ni Malami

LordVoldermort:
I don't even use Twitter that much sef (too much negativity) it's YouTube ban that will make me protest

Oh you will wait till they ban YouTube? Lol

globalresource:


Oh you will wait till they ban YouTube? Lol

Yes naw

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globalresource:
We will start with the useless AGF first. Omo ale ni Malami

The malami malam doesn't even know he already broke his law already

The funny thing is I've not even see twitter make any move to placate the Nigerian government in this matter. Not even a representative from twitter has met with our government. Talk about mega "I no send you". Thought zombies said Twitter is losing money and Jack Dorsey is crying

LordVoldermort:
I don't even use Twitter that much sef (too much negativity) it's YouTube ban that will make me protest

If they try YouTube I will lead the protest