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Speaker 1: President Donald Trump of the United States US has announced

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plans to meet one on one with the President of

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China she Jimping at Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation APEC meeting

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coming this November in South Korea, and according to President Trump,

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he had a phone call with President Sheet to also

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pay a state visit to China early next year to

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discuss and find a possible solution to end Russia Ukraine

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War and the U S issue with the Chinese owned

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social networking company TikTok that may face complete ban in

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the United States if agreement is not reached on December sixteen,

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twenty twenty five. That aside, the United States government is

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currently being considered as a pseudo practitioner of free trade

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and free speech and freedom of association. Some observers accused

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U S government of monopoly in the technology industry that

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it wants to remain superior in the social networking business. Hence,

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the U S Government is demanding to own and control TikTok,

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trying to use all manners of manipulative and deceptive ways

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to force by dance to sell TikTok to Oracle and

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silver Lake, among others. Because of China government alleged control

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of TikTok algorithm and also allegedly having access to the

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data of US uses, interesting as it may be in

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the aspect of trying to apparently abuse freedom of association.

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United States government under President Donald Trump has revoked and

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denied visa to Palestinian President Mamoodabis and eighty other Palestinian

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authorities inider for them probably not being able to attend

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the United Nations General Assembly meeting to speak out their

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minds against israel war in Gaza and other Palestinian territory,

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but other world leaders on Friday, in a vote of

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one hundred and forty five against five, permitted the Palestinian

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President Mamoodabbis to address the World Assembly via video call

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next week. China is one of the biggest economies in

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the world, has been on loggerhead with its major trade rival,

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the United States since twenty eighteen during the first tenure

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of President Donald Trump, and its loggerhead with US has

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probably made China to maintain a strategic pro Russian position

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on the war in Ukraine, publicly claiming neutrality while allegedly

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providing essential economic and diplomatic support to Moscow. Reports indicated

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that Chinese officials privately admit that a Russian defeat would

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not serve Beijing’s interests, which center on its geopolitical rivalry

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with the United States. Also China’s state controlled media Shinwan

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News Agency, People’s Daily, China Central Television, which include China

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Global Television, China National Radio CNR, and China Radio International CREE,

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some of them always using the prominent social networking platform

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in China, the Waibo social media are frequently and apparently

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always amplifying Russian talking points, such as blaming and accusing

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the North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO of expansionist agenda and

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the U S for allegedly creating the conflict between Russia

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and Ukraine. On TikTok. As of September twenty twenty five,

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TikTok continues to operate in the US, while its owner,

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by Dance, negotiates a deal with American buyers to avoid

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a van. The social networking app, which has since become

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one of the most used social media platforms in the

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world due to its favorable algorithm that challenged older existing

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social media platforms for low distribution of users contents, was

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temporarily inaccessible in January twenty twenty five following a Supreme

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Court ruling, but was restored after President Donald Trump delayed

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the ban. A key deadline is set for December sixteenth,

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twenty twenty five, for a sale to be finalized. According

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to a close watcher, TikTok’s U S operations be severed

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from Chinese ownership. The Pecurium opinion position the case as

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one of new technologies with transformative capabilities. In truth, the

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case and the law it was ruling on represents more

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than that, regardless of how the implementation unfolds. The legal

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van on Chinese ownership of social media apps operating in

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the United States is an inflection point in the U

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S China tech rivalry, with implications that extend beyond national security,

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data privacy, and the First Amendment. It signals a broader

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U S strategy to counter China’s technological influence across industries

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like semiconductors, artificial intelligence AI, electric vehicles, and five G.

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We learned that a framework deal has been reached that

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would give American investors control of eighty percent of tik Tok,

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with Chinese firms retaining twenty percent ownership. Proposed buyers include Oracle,

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which already host tik Tok’s U S data and private

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equity firms like silver Lake, it would be recalled that.

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In April twenty twenty four, the U S. Congress pastor

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bipartisan law and by then President Joe Biden that requires

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Chinese parent company by Dance to divest TikTok’s US operations

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or face a nationwide ban. The law was prompted by

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national security concerns over potential Chinese government access to American

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uses data and its ability to influence the platform’s algorithm. Wikipedia,

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in the summary of the China U S Trade War,

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indicated that an economic conflict between China and the United

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States has been ongoing since January twenty eighteen, when U

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S President Donald Trump began imposing tariffs and other trade

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barriers on China with the aim of forcing it to

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make changes to what the US has said along standing

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unfair trade practices and intellectual property theft. The first Trump

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administration stated that these practices may contribute to the U

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S China trade deficit and that the Chinese government requires

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the transfer of American technology to China. In response to

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the trade measures, CCP Secretary Shi Jinping’s administration accused the

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Trump administration of engaging in nationalist protectionism and took retaliatory action.

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Following the trade war’s escalation through twenty nineteen, the two

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sides reached a tense Phase one agreement in January twenty twenty. However,

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a temporary collapse in goods trade around the globe during

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the COVID nineteen pandemic, together with a short recession, diminished

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the chance of meeting the target. China failed to buy

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the two hundred billion dollars worth of additional imports specified

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as part of it. By the end of Trump’s first presidency,

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the trade war was widely characterized by American media outlets

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as a failure for the United States. The Biden administration

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kept the tariffs in place and added additional levies on

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Chinese goods such as electric vehicles and solar panels. In

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twenty twenty four, the Trump presidential campaign proposed a sixty

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percent tariff on Chinese goods. Twenty twenty five marked as

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significant escalation of the conflict. Under the second Trump administration,

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a series of increasing tariffs led to the US imposing

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a one hundred and forty five percent tariff on Chinese

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goods and China imposing a one hundred and twenty five

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percent tariff on American goods in response. These measures of

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forecast to cause a zero point two percent loss of

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global merchandise trade. Despite this, both countries have excluded certain

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items from their tariff lists and continued to try and

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find a resolution to the trade war. In a statement

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through his Truth social media network on Friday, President Trump

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said in quotes that I just completed a very productive

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call with President Shi of China. We made progress on

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many very important issues, including trade, fentanyl, the need to

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bring the war between Russia and Ukraine to an end,

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and the approval of the TikTok deal. I also agreed

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with President Shee that we would meet at the APEX

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summit in South Korea, that I would go to China

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in the early part of next year, and the President

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she would likewise come to the United States at an

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appropriate time. The call was a very good one. We

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will be speaking again by phone. Appreciate the TikTok approval,

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and both look forward to meeting at APEX. On u

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S visa denial to Palestine President Mahmoud Abbess, it would

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be recalled that Mahmood Abbess became the President of Palestine

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in two thousand and five, and barely two years into

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his administration, the Hamas started governing the Gaza Strip after

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the Hamas took over the Palestinian Gaza Strip territory from

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the rival Fatto ruled Palestinian Authority PA on the fourteenth

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of June two thousand and seven, until the current Israel

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War in Gaza that started since October twenty twenty three,

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during which Hamas appeared to have lost control of most

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of the territory. The administration of United States President Donald

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Trump announced in August twenty twenty five it was denial

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and revoking visas for members of the Palestine Liberation Organization

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PLO and the Palestinian Authority PA before the United Nations

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General Assembly UNNGA in September. The announcement was made in

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a statement released by the U S Department of State.

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According to the statement, the Trump Administration has been clear

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it is in our national security interests to hold the

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PLO and PER accountable for not complying with their commitments

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and for undermining the prospects for peace. The Palestinian government

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responded in the Abbess’s office called the visa decision astonishing

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and a violation of the nineteen forty seven UN Headquarters Agreement,

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which requires the US to allow access for foreign diplomats.

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Reuter’s International News Agency on Friday reported that the United

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Nations General Assembly voted on Friday to allow Palestinian President

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Mahmoud Abvis to address the annual gathering of World leaders

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next week via video after the United States said it

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would not give him a visa to travel to New York.

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The resolution received one hundred and forty five votes in

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favor and five votes against, while six countries abstained. It

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also allows ABIs and any other high level Palestinian officials

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to take part in U N meetings or conferences via

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video over the next year if they are prevented from

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traveling to the United States. The US said last month

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that Abbis and about eighty other Palestinians would be affected

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by its decision to deny and revoke visas from members

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of the Umbrella Palestine Liberation Organization and the West Bank

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based Palestinian Authority. US opposition to this resolution should come

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as no surprise. US diplomat Jonathan Schreier said before the vote.

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The Trump administration has been clear, we must hold the

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PLO and Palestinian authority accountable for not complying with their

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commitments under the Oslo Accords, some of them very basic,

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and for an undermining the prospects for peace. Under a

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nineteen forty seven U n Headquarters agreement, the US is

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generally required to allow access for foreign diplomats to the

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UN in New York. However, Washington has said it can

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deny visaes for security, extremism and foreign policy reasons. Abbess

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will also be allowed to appear via video at a

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summit opens New tab at the United Nations on Monday,

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convened by France and Saudi Arabia that seeks to rally

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support for a two state solution. Several countries are expected

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to formally recognize a Palestinian state at the meeting. The

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one hundred and ninety three member General Assembly agreed on

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Friday by consensus without a vote, that Saudi Crown Prince

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Muhammad bin Salman, the kingdom’s de facto ruler, could appear

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via video at Monday’s meeting. Quindi, it may be true

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that there are certain things people do to others, they

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may not take the same from anyone This assertion appeared

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to have come into play in the current administration of Nigeria.

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President Bola Hmed Talubu, who in the era of President

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Goodluck of Ballet Jonathan, apparently used spin logic to always

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make false statements, incite the public against the government, destroy

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the reputation and personality of the then President good Luck

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of Beallet Jonathan. As you may know, spin logic in

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communication is a public relations campaign strategy that uses deliberate, biased,

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or misleading interpretations of events and information to influence public perception.

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In one of the viral videos between twenty twelve and

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twenty fourteen in the history of politics in Nigeria, President

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Bolah Hmed Talubu, who was then a chieftain of the

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defunct Action Congress of Nigeria ACN and later All Progressives

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Congress APC, allegedly told a gathering of thousands of people

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that the then President good Luck Abelet Jonathan said Nigeria

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citizens should face death or starve to death directly or indirectly,

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saying that the then President Jonathan did not care about

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the well being of his people. Till date, Tanubu has

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not shown any evidence to back up his claim. That

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the people are hungry, President Jonathan said they should face death,

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and in some occasions, Tanubu called on the police not

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to attack protesters. Specifically, on November twenty ninth, twenty thirteen,

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Tanubu tweeted by a tweeta now ex social media platform,

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that police do not attack protesters. Your children are involved,

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your lives are involved, Your children’s future lie here, and

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urged millions of Nigerians to protest peacefully against the Jonathan

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led government and in one of the protests, Occupy Niger,

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allegedly sponsored by Bola Ahmed Tanubu. According to Reno Omakri,

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who was then a media spokesperson to Jonathan, the then

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President Jonathan’s folk was placed on a coffin as a

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dead man and the coffin was labeled IP, meaning rest

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in peace. Also in February twenty eleven, as reported by

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Nigeria Media, Tanubu described the then President good Luck Jonathan

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as a drunkard sinking fisherman, a word that appears to

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falsely describe the then President Jonathan as a man that

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always take too much of alcohol to the extent of

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losing control of his behavior. But under the same Tanubu

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who is now the President of Nigeria. The State Security

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Service SSS, also known as the Department of State Service DSS,

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has filed a court case against Facebook and EX social

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media companies over a post published separately on August twenty

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fifth and twenty six, twenty twenty five by a well

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known human rights activist and anti government critic, Omiele Saware

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and his online media Salara A Reporters. And In the

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five count charges, the DSS accused Omiele Saware of making

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being defamatory or false statements against the person of President

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Bola Ahmed Tanubu for describing the President as a criminal

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after the President allegedly said there is no more corruption

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in Nigeria. In the legal battle, Omiyelee Saware has also

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gone to court to stop Facebook x social Media from

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deleting his posts and sued the DSS for unconstitutional media censorship.

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The DSS, in the sub market fhc ABJ CR four

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hundred and eighty four two than twenty fifths also joined Meta,

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the parent company of Facebook, and Ex Corporation as defendants

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at the Federal High Court in Abuja. The criminal charges

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filed and dated September sixteenth, was filed by Mohammad Abubakhar,

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Director of Public Prosecutions, Federal Ministry of Justice after the

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DSS road to Facebook X and Saware to delete the

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post and deactivate saware account, but the parties appeared to

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have refused to honor the DSS requests. In the five

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count charge, Saware, the publisher of SATA Reporters, was alleged

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to have made a false claim against the person of

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the president by referring to him as a criminal. Saware,

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the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress AAC in

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twenty nineteen and twenty twenty three, in the charges accused

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of contravening the provisions of the Cyber Crimes Prohibition Prevention, Etc.

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Amendment Act twenty twenty four. Count one of the charge

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alleged that Saware Honor about August twenty fifth did use

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his official ex handle page and yellow Saware to send

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out a message tweet. The message is said to be

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this criminal at official pea bat actually went to Brazil

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to state that there is no more corruption under his

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regime in Nigeria. What audacity to lie shamelessly? The message,

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which he knew to be false, was posted for the

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purpose of causing a breakdown of law and order in

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the country, especially among individuals who hold divergent views on

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the personality of the President and Commander in Chief of

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the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola

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Ahmed Tenubu GCFR. The offense is said to be contrary

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to Section twenty four one b of the Cyber Crimes

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Prohibition Prevention Etc. Amendment Act twenty twenty four, among other counts. Meanwhile,

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Omile Saware also filed a lawsuit against the DSS and

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owners of Meta and X Corporation not to delete his posts,

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saying the issue is about principles not personality. Sware originating

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summon reads on behalf of our client, Omile Saware. We

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have filed two fundamental rights actions of the Federal High Court,

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Abuja against the State Security Service SSS, META, owners of

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Facebook and X Corporation formerly Twitter. These suits were filed

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to challenge the unconcer institutional censorship initiated by the DSS

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SSS against Sauare’s accounts maintained with Meta and X. The

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lawsuit states categorically that this is about the survival of

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free speech in Nigeria. If state agencies can dictate to

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global platforms who may speak and what may be said,

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then no Nigerian is safe. Their voices will be silenced

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at the whim of those in power. Censorship of political

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criticism is alien to democracy. The Constitution of the Federal

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Republic of Nigeria, in section thirty nine, guarantees every citizen

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the right to freedom of expression without interference. No security agency,

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no matter how powerful, can suspend or delete those rights.

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Meta and X must also understand this. When they vouter

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unlawful censorship demands, they become complicit in the suppression of liberty.

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They cannot hide behind neutrality while authoritarianism is exported onto

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their platforms. Our prayers before the court are simple that

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the SSS has no power in law to censor Nigerians

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on social media, that Metter and X must not lend

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their platforms as tools of repression, and that our client’s

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rites them by extension the rights of all Nigerians be

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fully protected against unlawful censorship. We call on all lovers

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of freedom, journalists, human rights defenders and the Nigerian people

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to stand firm. Today it is saware, tomorrow it may

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be you. This struggle is not about personalities. It is

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about principle and we shall resist every attempt to turn

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Nigeria into a digital dictatorship. Signed Toue Temo Kanov Toue

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Temokin Chambers, Lagos, Esquire. On the sixteenth of September twenty

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twenty five, we had reported that as people of Nepal

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in South Asia country took to the streets in an

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unprecedented manner to protest an end to corruption and bad

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leadership in the country. During the week after a short

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lived ban on social media by the Nepalese government, Nigeria

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secret police known as Department of State Security Service DSS,

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appeared to have doubled efforts, apparently to avert the unpleasant

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Nepal situation in the West Africa country, a situation where

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some politicians in the South Asia country tasted the bitter

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side of their citizens like never before. This, the DSS

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has appeared to be on the neck of ex social

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media management to ensure the deletion of a post tweeted

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by the founder of Sahara Reporters news media and a

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well known anti government critic, Armiele Saware that allegedly described

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the Nigeria President Bola armed Tulubu as a criminal, a

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statement Saware made in reaction to the words of President

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Bola armed Telubu over corruption in Nigeria while the President

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was on official visit in Brazil. The DSS said Saware

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mis represented the President’s statement and as such the supporters

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of the president are not happy over it. The Security

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Service demanded a attracted publication from homil A Swarry, but

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in a swift reaction, Omi declined and accused of the

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accessor always acting illegally. Guys increasing the age of work.

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Unapplin man is a cause, they say, yes, we know

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why the people agrees and lend them faced with death.

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That is what is in a buda today in the

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current way of donat lesson. Don’t be impossible what it

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does and the quality and the arison of just process

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in every we have got that at the hour in

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this place to put the names of imagine of corrosion

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and perhaps we are to bring a new name. As

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people of Nepal in South Asia, country took to the

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streets in an unprecedented manner to protest and end to

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corruption and bad leadership in the country. During the week

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after a short lived ban on social media by the

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Nepalese government. Nigeria secret police known as Department of State

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Security Services ESS appeared to have doubled efforts apparently to

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revert the unpleasant Nepal situation in the West Africa country,

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a situation where some politicians in the South Asia country

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tasted the bitter side of their citizens like never before. This,

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the DSS has appeared to be on the neck of

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ex social media management to ensure the deletion of a

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post tweeted by the founder of Sahara Reporters news media

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and a well known anti government critic, Omiele Sawarre, that

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allegedly described the Nigeria President Bulla Hmed Tanubu as a criminal,

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a statement Saware made in reaction to the words of

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President Bulla Ahmed Tanubu over corruption in Nigeria while the

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president was on official visit in Brazil. The DSS said

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sawaremus represented the President’s statement and as such, the supporters

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of the president are not happy over it. Hence the

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security service demanded a retracted publication from Amile Saware, but

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in a swift reaction, Omiele declined and accused the DSS

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of always acting illegally. In a letter written during the

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week and address to the Director General of the Department

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of State Services, Omiyele said, I acknowledge receipt of your

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letter which you stealthily dumped with a security guard at

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the office of my attorneys in Abuja, addressed to Abu Bakhma.

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I find your horrendous attempt at holding an unwarranted brief

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for the President not only insidious, but fundamentally defective, flawed

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in principle and absolutely unlawful. The State Security Service was

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not created as a security institution. The SSS, now self

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styled as the DSS, began as the e Department Special Branch,

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an office established in nineteen forty eight and initially located

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in the office of the Inspector General at Police. It

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was later renamed the National Security Organization NSO, but on

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June fifth, nineteen eighty six, the Federal Military government issued

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Decree number nineteen dissolving the NSO and unbundling it into

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three entities, the SSS for domestic intelligence, the NIA for

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external intelligence and counterintelligence, and the DEER for military related intelligence.

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While the NEAR and DIA largely kept faith with their mandates,

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the SSS under successive Director Generals has consistently acted bullishly,

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illegally and unlawfully, serving as a ready tool of oppression

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for dictatorial regime spent on breaking rules and repressing the

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rights of the Nigerian people. Thus, it is no surprise

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that you have once again resumed repressive hostility against me.

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In nineteen ninety three, while I was student union president

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at the University of Legos, policemen abducted me from the

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university gate during a peaceful pro democracy protest. I was

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taken to your Legos office after being driven around with

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my head tucked under a seat from our lower way

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in Akoi. I was detained unlawfully for weeks at the

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notorious inter center near Akoi Cemetery. It took several days

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of lecture boycotts to force your hand to release me

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without charges. Again. In January and June nineteen ninety six,

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during and after my National Youth Service Corps in Yola

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Adamawa State, your men detained me and later tried transferred

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me to the Nigerian Air Force base where I was

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held in hand and leg chains for over a week

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before release again without charges. My NYSC discharge certificate has

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been denied to me to this day because of your

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unlawful detention. In August twenty nineteen, the ss agents invaded

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my hotel room, abducted me and detained me for months

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over trumped up allegations of treasonable felony, money laundering and cybercrime.

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It was your first attempt to falsely accuse me of

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insulting a sitting president that failed, as did every other

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false accusation advanced against me by the government through the

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SSS and police. During that period, you flouted several court judgments.

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Most disgracefully, your men invaded a Federal High Court presided

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by Justice Ijayoma Adjukuta have dug me even after bail

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conditions were met. To this day, you continued to refuse

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to obey two court judgments ordering the return of my

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confiscated properties, including several mobile phones, and payment of damages.

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You and URILK have dragged me through unscrupulous abuse and

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gross violations of rights for decades without remorse. In twenty

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twenty one, during the inglorious Buhari years, your agency propped

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up a sham group, the incorporated Trustees of Global Integrity

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Crusade Network, to sue Sahara reporters and me on behalf

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of the criminally minded Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakhar

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Malami Sam. They prayed the court to compel me and

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others to pay Malami two billion nairas for alleged trauma

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and emotional stress caused by Sahara reporters publications. In July

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twenty twenty, in his judgment, Justice Abiora Eguat awarded one

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hundred thousand nairas against the litigants, affirming the argument of

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our Attorney Marshal Abubaka that they had no right to

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sue on Malami’s behalf, just as you have no right

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to act as proxy for President Bolah arm Met to Nubu. Defamation,

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the judge reminded, is a personal taught The AGF should

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have gone to court himself if he felt defamed. It

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is elementary that only the person to fame can sue. Therefore,

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your attempt to demand a retraction is an incompetent and

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unlawful attempt to hold the president’s brief. Section twenty two

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of the nineteen ninety nine Constitution requires the press to

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uphold the government’s responsibility and accountability to the people. Section

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thirty nine guarantees every citizen the right to freedom of expression,

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to hold opinions and to receive an impart information without interference.

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Article nine of the African Charter on Human and People’s

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Rights provides the same. Even in the UK, sedition and

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libel laws have been repealed as archaic relics of a

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bygone era. The UN Human Rights Committee, in General Comment

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number thirty four has declared a free unsensed media essential

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to democracy. Courts across Africa, including Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court and

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the African Court in isir Canate versus Bukina Faso, have

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ruled the criminal defamation is unjustifiable in a democracy. Nigeria’s

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own Court of Appeal in Arthur Awanquo versus State nineteen

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eighty five, struck down sedition laws when Nawanquo was convicted

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for criticizing Governor jim In Wobodo. The court held that

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sedition was unconstitutional and animical to free speech. Justice Adikae

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in ig P versus a n p P asked how

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long Nigerians must suffer under colonial era public order ordinances

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designed to gag descent. Criticism is indispensable in a democracy.

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Freedom of speech includes the right to say what those

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in power find uncomfortable justice. Olatowra reminded us that citizens

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must defend their hard one freedom of expression and that

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those in public office must not be intolerant of criticism.

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Where boundary is across, the remedy is civil libel, not

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unlawful repression. The dss is desire to please the powers

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that be has always destroyed institutions while building strong men.

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But where are those strong men to day after your

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service broke laws and trampled rights to protect them. Rather

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than vilification, we should be commended for living up to

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our constitutional responsibility to hold leaders accountable. I am glad

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you made reference to my constant desire to seek change,

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the very drive that led me to run for the

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position of President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, even

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though my commitments and convictions predate partisan political endeavors. It

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is from that same line of conviction that I have

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adopted an uncompromising stance ensuring that this country does not

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continue down the path of perdition. You have no business

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telling me how to criticize the president. But knowing the

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nature of your service, it is clear you have not

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learned your life. Let me state it clearly once again.

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The determination of the Nigerian people to reclaim their country

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from thieves in power is unwavering and it shall be achieved.

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Freedom cometh by struggle. A luta continua victoria asserta yours

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in unwavering service to Nigeria. Omi Yle Sawarre, former presidential

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candidate African Action Congress AAC, stated, Aledi Gringi gingis in

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the Mortgagisalwi