Tayo AFOLABI

THE Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, has adjourned till 29 September 2021, all the four cases on the legality of the 5 June Twitter ban imposed by the Buhari administration.

The court at a Zoom sitting  on Friday, also merged all the four cases to enable all parties to organize themselves for trial.

This was after Abdullahi Abubakar, the lawyer representing the Federal Government informed the court of his motion to consolidate all the four applications.

The cases are ECW/CCJ/APP/23/21, ECW/CCJ/APP/29/21, ECW/CCJ/APP/24/21, and ECW/ CCJ/ APP/26 /21.

Two of the cases were filed by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, and 196 others, Media Rights Agency and eight others.

Patrick Elohor and Malcolm Omirhobo also challenged the ban individually.

All the applicants said the whimsical suspension of the microblogging platform violated their rights.

In one of the suits No ECW/CCJ/APP/23/21 filed by human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SERAP and 176 other Nigerians sued Buhari for criminalisation of Nigerians and other people using Twitter and for escalating repression of human rights, particularly the rights to freedom of expression, access to information, and media freedom in the country.

The suit also seeks an order of interim injunction restraining the Federal Government from implementing its suspension of Twitter in Nigeria.


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