From my own understanding of things happening around the world especially in Nigeria, we should all be careful of what we say publicly on any platform, you might argue "what about freedom of speech"... But the truth is that anything you say about any government whether it was said out of frustration or repression, or jokingly has the possibility of instigating or even poisoning the mind of other people having similar thoughts with what you said.... the young man was arrested because he threatened the life of the president of a country (Nigeria), which we all know is a serious offence under the law in any country especially in Nigeria.. Although, we know the young man might not be able to carry out his intentions because he might not have the means and resources, but what about if that he said was later carried out by a different person that seems capable and had the means to get the job done because he has seen some one that is willing to take the fall incase anything goes wrong (remember we have psyches all over even within the people with class and resources), just like how some people will cause social unrest in the country, Boko Haram will come out to claim responsibility, even when they never did it in the first instance because we all know they are capable of carrying out such acts... After the endsars protest, many people's accounts were frozen and summoned by the FG because of their role in the whole saga (mind you I'm not against a peaceful protest).... what I'm saying is that everything boils down to how the president or the presidency wants to take the situation, the past Govt under PDP might decide to ignore what ever treasonable comments you make or actions you take but that doesn't justify what you said to be good, if you wants to criticize, come out clearly stating your points and at the end you point out recommendations, that is criticism, anything outside this might be seen differently by a few others. You might say buhari said something worse than that in the past to the former govt.... that govt decided on not taking action but that doesn't make it less an offense. But this govt has decided to make you accountable to what you say,so in the case of the young man he knows where he got it wrong.

Neddstark:
Statements he said can be categorized under hate speech. He just ruined himself just like some fools here insulting other tribes and religions while their phone number has been shared here before for business. When they catch you, you are on your own.

Where is "insulting other tribes and religion and even hate speech a crime in our laws?
Keep defending evil till it will crawl up on you

Kingzeez10:

Come out with proof or you STFU

you STFU

wellmax:
I saw this post earlier today on FP.
https://www.nairaland.com/6359915/police-detain-solomon-emmanuel-akuma

As expected NLders began to bash the president and DSS. Truth is that story followed from a post by Sowore on twitter. What the writer failed to mention is the real offence of Emmanuel Akuma. What did he say in criticising Buhari.

Attached here is the twitter post that got him in trouble. You think because you have freedom of speech then you can say anything? Or because you are behind a keypad, you think you cannot be traced.

This is a warning to youths especially, be careful of what you post online.

No serious country will take that post as a joke.

Emmanuel Akuma is learning an important lesson in life the hard way. Many more are already languishing in various prisons. Mind what you say online.

The only offense I saw there is on the last tweet when he referred to a Russian sniper to assassinate the president and his former chief of staff. That's one post with legal consequences he has to answer for.

However what many find disturbing in this matter is the alleged 300 days in police custody and that's illegal and out of the law books.

And that's what you failed to point out. You spared no words for the government or police authorities.

Shame on you.

Edygrin:

With people like you Nigeria will never get better. What do you mean by Nigerian youths should be careful of what they post so that the won't be arrested?
Can Buhari arrest all the Nigerian youths? Or will he stay in power forever? Trump is out today, tomorrow it will be Buhari. Power is transient but northern rulers never seem to remember that until it's too late. Buhari can arrest anybody he likes today but by 2023 he will be out of there and even Bobrisky will be more influential. Power is transient, Abacha with all the power died, Babangida can't even attend functions anymore, Obasanjo is being insulted by people he made, Jonathan was betrayed. Buhari will not be different, he may have forgotten that.

Seem you don’t get the point a citizen openly threatening the president by paying a sniper to kill he should be taken lightly, have you seen any citizen in the world threatening to kill a sitting president, of cos only in Nigeria that citizen have tap mouth

Agboriotejoye:

Where is "insulting other tribes and religion and even hate speech a crime in our laws?
Keep defending evil till it will crawl up on you

I was brought up with good values. I will never go online and say "God destroy Northern Nigeria". For you to support such statements, means you are filled with hate. And guess what, that hate in you will destroy you cos it never brings any good.

GhostWisperer:
The only offense I saw there is on the last tweet when he referred to a Russian sniper to assassinate the president and his former chief of staff. That's one post with legal consequences he has to answer for.

However what many find disturbing in this matter is the alleged 300 days in police custody and that's illegal and out of the law books.

And that's what you failed to point out. You spared no words for the government or police authorities.

Shame on you.

In a federal crime DSS can hold you for two years if they wish until investigation is completed before you are charged, is husspuppy not in custody longer than that, has he been charged yet?

braveboy64:
We bash Buhari everyday which is unfair, so many people like that on Nairaland.

They blame Buhari for their inherited poverty

HUNGRY BOY
I KNOW YOU HAVE NOT EATEN GOOD FOOD FOR DAYS

Neddstark:


I was brought up with good values. I will never go online and say "God destroy Northern Nigeria". For you to support such statements, means you are filled with hate. And guess what, that hate in you will destroy you cos it never brings any good.

SHUT UP!

femi4:
just hijacked the whole space with epistle that won't change anything. You cannot force your view on others aggressively.

Respect the opinion of others and move on.

HE WANTS TO IMPOSE HIS DIRTY VIEWS ON OTHERS BUT HE KNOWS HIS BOUNDARY.
WE ARE TOO WISE FOR THAT.
HE CAN TRY THAT WITH THE GULLIBLE PEOPLE, NO BE FOR US.

wellmax:
I saw this post earlier today on FP.
https://www.nairaland.com/6359915/police-detain-solomon-emmanuel-akuma

As expected NLders began to bash the president and DSS. Truth is that story followed from a post by Sowore on twitter. What the writer failed to mention is the real offence of Emmanuel Akuma. What did he say in criticising Buhari.

Attached here is the twitter post that got him in trouble. You think because you have freedom of speech then you can say anything? Or because you are behind a keypad, you think you cannot be traced.

This is a warning to youths especially, be careful of what you post online.

No serious country will take that post as a joke.

Emmanuel Akuma is learning an important lesson in life the hard way. Many more are already languishing in various prisons. Mind what you say online.

I still don't believe you DSS guys that post there can be planted by you guys,beside I do not see where he order the assassination of the president, he said God should visit him...so what?


I hope the next person that called for Russian snipers is behind bars too?




You duty is to be more discrete in your operations but no,you help the administration in breaking the laws,intimidating citizens and denying them freedom of speech.



By now you guys ought to have captured sheakau,pinpoint all the bandits hideout, fish out bokoharam in formats in the army etc..

Was obasanjo arrested when he accused Gej administration of hiring snipers to eliminate him and prominent individuals that were against him?


You guys should remember one thing,God is watching, for everything a man sow so he will reap.

post=98001886:


It is just very few reasonable and sensible people that had a second thought about it that yesterday's thread...very few people reasoned that
'why would the president arrest a nonentity and leave the likes of Fayose, who sworn on his life and his parents grave that Bubu died in a UK hospital, that he has the video and multiple images to support his lies, but Baba paid him no mind, FFK, the short fuse idiot has written and said more demeaning words to PMB, but Baba never made any mention about it, Reno and the rest of them nko, Baba ignore them all......
Is it now one foolish nonentity, that wakes up his parents with kicks and blows every morning, an idiot that has no respect for his parents or grandparents, typing on his worn out mat from his village that Baba will say DSS Should go an arrest ?!'

Well, it is always good and refreshing to know we still have members like the below that use their God-given brain to have second thoughts about some sensational bs as this.....



It is just 2 of you guys and some other 3 people that made sense in that previous thread of yesterday.
You can now see you have been justified.



That is why this saying exist: Rumours are spread by fools and believe by idiots


You are one of the sane members here.
You've said it all.
Nothing to be added again.


But it was democracy when a sitting President commanded soldiers to wipe out all the men of a certain village in Nigeria just few years ago.....and they DID!

Two characteristics of wailers : LIES AND HYPOCRISY!




Here is the absolute truth of the matter.
Rumors are truly spread by demented souls and losers


Buhari has refused like previous governments to bribe legislators to do their duties, and since their dirty strategies is no longer working they have become a stumbling block to progress...the wailers will say if it was OBJ he would have dealt with them. (But if he had use any other means they will say he is undemocratic; two sided mouth people)

If you call a thief by its name, they will say how can you be insulting an honourable, a distinguished senator, a former president who has fought poverty through farming etc, but
hear them when they refer to Mr president, 'the man is a m***n, he is brain dead, he is d*ft' etc.

But this man has proven to be better than them all, he has refused to respond to the tantrums of their bosses, the OBJs, Atikus, Fayose, Reno, FFK etc Like a true soldier he marches on with the good works, and God has been his defense.
They want to bury our darlingDaddy, they don'tknow he is a seed.

You called him nonentity yet he's more prominent than you,just look at you just because you are from the north and nothing wrong will ever come from there,you are there singing buhari praises comparing him with the likes of obj,gej etc yet he do not achieved a single thing obj achieved instead he succeeded in dividing Nigeria along tribal lines worst than it's have been.


Insecurity have taken over the entire country including his home state yet you are writing trash.

Is refusing to bribe the senate an achievement?

point to his achievement and stop your usual nonsense.

Agboriotejoye:

Where is "insulting other tribes and religion and even hate speech a crime in our laws?
Keep defending evil till it will crawl up on you

Don't mind them,leave them to continue swimming in their ignorance.

wellmax:
Freedom of speech has limits. We see that already with Donald Trump.
Mynd44

What happened to Donald Trump is not freedom of speech .it was because of the capitol Hill riot.

Millions of people insulted Donald since he became president..how many dem jail or arrest?? Nobody


If people can insult God then who the hell is a president

Joe Biden once told trump in his face that" you are the worst president America ever have".


I mean in his face,trump fire back by saying "do not talk to me about smartness,what have you achieved in 40yrs to warrant you to talk to me about smartness?"




But in Nigeria, Buhari have become an emperor.

Neddstark:


I was brought up with good values. I will never go online and say "God destroy Northern Nigeria". For you to support such statements, means you are filled with hate. And guess what, that hate in you will destroy you cos it never brings any good.

I did not ask you what values you were brought up with.
Your values are not the laws that govern the Federal Republic of Nigeria. My support for the statement or my being filled with hate is irrelevant here.
Here's the question I asked you. If you're too ignorant to answer I suggest you keep quiet forthwith.

Where is "insulting other tribes and religion and even hate speech" a crime in our laws?

Kieel:




What happened to Donald Trump is not freedom of speech .it was because of the capitol Hill riot.

Millions of people insulted Donald since he became president..how many dem jail or arrest?? Nobody


If people can insult God then who the hell is a president

Thank you.

Agboriotejoye:
Here is the self-acclaimed patriot supporting the incarceration of a citizen who has not faced trial in a law court.
What's the difference between this and shekau holding Leah sharibu for refusing to denounce Christianity?

Like he said freedom of speech, has its limitations, where yours stops, another persons begins, you can’t infringe on people’s rights in the disguise of freedom of speech, he will get what he deserves.

Agboriotejoye:

I did not ask you what values you were brought up with.
Your values are not the laws that govern the Federal Republic of Nigeria. My support for the statement or my being filled with hate is irrelevant here.
Here's the question I asked you. If you're too ignorant to answer I suggest you keep quiet forthwith.

Where is "insulting other tribes and religion and even hate speech" a crime in our laws?

I swear on my balls he or they will not answer you.

Kieel:




What happened to Donald Trump is not freedom of speech .it was because of the capitol Hill riot.

Millions of people insulted Donald since he became president..how many dem jail or arrest?? Nobody


If people can insult God then who the hell is a president

They will teach that useless Peasant a very serious lesson, he will find out now that God is in Heaven, & President Buhari is in Nigeria.

favor914:
Like he said freedom of speech, has its limitations, where yours stops, another persons begins, you can’t infringe on people’s rights in the disguise of freedom of speech, he will get what he deserves.

Many of you in this country are here by mistake, you deserve Somalia or central African republic.

Toktee:
Many of you in this country are here by mistake, you deserve Somalia or central African republic.

It is true I represent CMH, you deserve the Nigeria you are whining about.

castiello:


In a federal crime DSS can hold you for two years if they wish until investigation is completed before you are charged, is husspuppy not in custody longer than that, has he been charged yet?

This is a lie. DSS can't hold you for more than 48hrs without a valid remand order

favor914:
Like he said freedom of speech, has its limitations, where yours stops, another persons begins, you can’t infringe on people’s rights in the disguise of freedom of speech, he will get what he deserves.

Just cause he said it doesn't make it true. You're a citizen of Nigeria like me. Quote the relevant section of our laws which describes the limitation of freedom of speech.

favor914:
It is true I represent CMH, you deserve the Nigeria you are whining about.

Troll.

Agboriotejoye:

This is a lie. DSS can't hold you for more than 48hrs without a valid remand order

Go & be a nuisance in public to find out, then when you get to Court, they will tell you no hearing for 2 weeks the Judge is on sabbatical, then tell me who you would run to? Then you would make your choice, be remanded either @ DSS office in Ikoyi, or Kirikiri Prison, the prerogative is yours.

MajorOvakporaye:


SHUT UP!

Hmmm

The way I de see this thing eh, as dem don charge this guy go court dem go just de adjourn the case till them tire

vibre:


Wellmax or whatever you call yourself, since when did the law permit security operatives to arbitrarily detain individuals without trial for over 300 days because he made offensive remarks on twitter? That you even think that this your post is a rational defence of this act of impunity by the dss just goes to show how much of dumb person you are. People like you are the reason why governments will continue to violate human rights with impunity because they know that there are always useful idiots in the society that will be out to defend their acts of rascality.

this is just just offensive as you call it, he can abuse the president directly but this is a threat to a nation, no country will take it, in the US, FBI would have arrested him immediately

favor914:
Go & be a nuisance in public to find out, then when you get to Court, they will tell you no hearing for 2 weeks the Judge is on sabbatical, then tell me who you would run to? Then you would make your choice, be remanded either @ DSS office in Ikoyi, or Kirikiri Prison, the prerogative is yours.

Fact is, to support tyranny, you have to be ignorant. In case you don't know, a judge is not a pepper seller you go to her shop and she's not around.
Before a case is brought before a judge, the judge is already aware of the case. So, it's impossible for a judge who a case has been assigned to simply "go on sabbatical" without hearing the case first and deciding if the defendant should get bail or not.
Furthermore, even when judges are on vacation, there's a judge or two left behind to attend to such situations if they arise pending resumption of the judges.
You see, the constitution already makes allowances so that your right to a fair trial is never submerged. It is ignoramuses like you who go about supporting tyranny that are the problem.

favor914:
Animals don’t deserve freedom of speech, not all men & women are created equal, even animal rights advocates believe they have an opinion for animal emancipation, so I don’t blame you, you have the right to imagine what you are not, keep dreaming, Animal in human skin, people like you that claim the President is a terrorist when eventually apprehended should be charged for sedition with intent to commit treason.

Seems there is debilitating madness in your gene that is struggling to be known
You just come online with your stupid mouth and think you can insult and bully everyone into silence.
You must be dafter than I gave you credit.
Between you and I who has been behaving like an animal with your low mentality and uncouth utterance.
I suggest you fúck off my quotes. Idiot