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Nigeria's secret police, the State Security Service, also known as @OfficialDSSNG, today filed a five-count charge at the Federal High Court in Abuja against ‘X' (formerly @Twitter), @facebook, and myself.

The DSS has become even more clueless, idle, and disheveled. It’s hard to believe there’s anyone sensible left in those offices to make Nigeria work. Regardless, I will be present whenever this case is assigned for trial.

What if we start a hashtag #TinubuisAcriminal and it keeps trending regardless?

Also per Gani Fawehinmi #TinubuIsACriminal

SOWORE GOES TO COURT AGAINST SSS, META AND X: ASKS FEDERAL HIGH COURT TO STOP FACEBOOK AND TWITTER FROM DELETING HIS STATEMENT CALLING TINUBU A CRIMINAL

On behalf of our client, Omoyele Sowore @YeleSowore , we have filed two fundamental rights actions at the Federal High Court, Abuja, against the State Security Service (SSS) @OfficialDSSNG , @Meta (owners of @facebook ), and @X Corp. (formerly Twitter).

These lawsuits were filed to challenge the unconstitutional censorship initiated by the @OfficialDSSNG /SSS against Sowore’s accounts maintained with Meta and X.

The lawsuit states categorically that this is about the survival of free speech in Nigeria. If state agencies can dictate to global platforms who may speak and what may be said, then no Nigerian is safe, their voices will be silenced at the whims of those in power.

Censorship of political criticism is alien to democracy. The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, in Section 39, guarantees every citizen the right to freedom of expression, without interference. No security agency, no matter how powerful, can suspend or delete those rights.

Meta and X must also understand that when they bow to unlawful censorship demands, they become complicit in the suppression of the struggle for liberty. They cannot hide behind neutrality while authoritarianism is exported onto their platforms.

Our prayers before the Court are simple:

That the SSS @OfficialDSSNG has no power in law to censor Nigerians on social media;

That Meta and X must not lend their platforms as tools of repression; and

That our client’s rights and by extension, the rights of all Nigerians, be fully protected against unlawful censorship.

We call on all lovers of freedom, journalists, human rights defenders, and the Nigerian people to stand firm.
Today it is @YeleSowore ; tomorrow it may be you.

This struggle is not about personalities. It is about principle. And we shall resist every attempt to turn Nigeria into a digital dictatorship.

Signed,
@TopeTemokun , Esq.
16/09/25

Kastonkastroll:
NO oga sowore you are wrong on this. The DSS of recent have been very proactive. Most of the successes the military are recording by annihilating bandits and terrorists have the DSS prints on it.


Those guys are trying these days and thats a visible fact!

Racoon:
The DSS is supposed to be unheard of, akin to the American CIA, Israel - Mossad or the Russian KGB. However, this arm of government has metamorphosed to an organ of state oppression, repression and suppression. This is too bad.

Kastonkastroll:
NO oga sowore you are wrong on this. The DSS of recent have been very proactive. Most of the successes the military are recording by annihilating bandits and terrorists have the DSS prints on it.


Those guys are trying these days and thats a visible fact!

Kastonkastroll:
NO oga sowore you are wrong on this. The DSS of recent have been very proactive. Most of the successes the military are recording by annihilating bandits and terrorists have the DSS prints on it.


Those guys are trying these days and thats a visible fact!

ogolemati:
ok did sowore call DSS criminals,what the beef with DSS.what is DSS trying to prove

Ofunaofu:
Many have called Tinubu a criminal. The late legal luminary, human rights lawyer, and activist, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, also called Tinubu a criminal who deserved a jail term. So why is the DSS acting like this is the first time Tinubu is being called a criminal? They should rather arrest and investigate Tinubu.