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Speaker 1: As people of Nepal in South Asia country took to

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the streets in an unprecedented manner to protest an end

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to corruption and bad leadership in the country. During the

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week after a short lived ban on social media by

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the Nepalese government, Nigeria’s secret police, known as Department of

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State Security Services DESS, appeared to have doubled efforts, apparently

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to 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, Amiele Sawarre that

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allegedly described the Nigeria President Bula Armed Tanubu as a

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criminal a statements AWARE made in reaction to the words

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of President Bulla Hmed Tanubu over corruption in Nigeria YI

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while the president was on official visit in Brazil. The

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d SS said Saware mis represented the President’s statement and

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as such, the supporters of the President are not happy

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over it. Hence the Security Service demanded a attractive publication

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from Omilee Saware, but in a swift reaction, Omillele declined

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and accused the DSS of always acting illegally. In a

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letter written during the week and address to the Director

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General of the Department of State Services, Omielee said, I

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acknowledge receipt of your letter which you stealthily dumped with

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a security guard at the office of my attorneys in Abuja.

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Addressed to Abu Bakha Marshal, I find your horrendous attempt

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at holding an unwarranted brief for the President not only insidious,

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but fundamentally defective, flawed in principle and absolutely unlawful. The

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State Security Service was not created as a security institution.

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The SSS now self styled as the DSS, began as

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the e Department Special Branch, an office established in nineteen

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forty eight and initially located in the Office of the

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Inspector General at Police. It was later renamed the National

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Security Organization NSO, but on June fifth, nineteen eighty six,

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the Federal Military government issued Decree number nineteen dissolving the

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NSO and unbundling it into three entities, the SSS for

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domestic intelligence, the NIA for external intelligence and counterintelligence, and

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the DEER for military related intelligence. While the NEAR and

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DIA largely kept faith with their mandates, the SSS under

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successive Director generals has consistently acted bullishly, illegally and unlawfully,

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serving as a ready tool of oppression for dictatorial regime

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spent on breaking rules and repressing the rights of the

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Nigerian people. Thus, it is no surprise that you have

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once again resumed repressive hostility against me. In nineteen ninety three,

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while I was student union president at the University of Legos,

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policemen abducted me from the university gate during a peaceful

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pro democracy protest. I was taken to your Legos office

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after being driven around with my head tucked under a

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seat from our lower way in Akoi, I was detained

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unlawfully for weeks at the notorious inter center near Akoi Cemetery.

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It took several days of lecture boycotts to force your

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hand to release me without charges. Again. In January and

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June nineteen ninety six, during and after my National Youth

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Service Corps in Yola Adamawa State. Your men detained me

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and later transferred me to the Nigerian Air Force Base

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where I was held in hand and leg chains for

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over a week before release again without charges. My NYSC

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discharge certificate has been denied to me to this day

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because of your unlawful detention. In August twenty nineteen, the

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ss agents invaded my hotel room, abducted me and detained

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me for months over trumped up allegations of treasonable felony,

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money laundering and cybercrime. It was your first attempt to

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falsely accuse me of insulting a sitting president that failed,

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as did every other false accusation advanced against me by

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the government through the SSS and police. During that period,

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you flouted several court judgments. Most disgracefully, your men invaded

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a Federal High Court presided by Justice Ijayoma Adjukutra of

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dug Me even after bail conditions were met. To this day,

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you continued to refuse to obey two court judgments ordering

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the return of my confiscated properties, including several mobile phones,

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and payment of damages. You and ur ILK have dragged

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me through unscrupulous abuse and gross violations of rights for

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decades without remorse. In twenty twenty one, during the inglorious

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Buhari years, your agency propped up a sham group, the

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incorporated Trustees of Global Integrity Crusade Network, to sue Sahara

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Reporters and Me on behalf of the criminally minded Attorney

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General of the Federation, Abu Bakhar Malami Sam. They prayed

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the court to compel me and others to pay Malami

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two billion nairas for alleged traumer and emotional stress caused

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by Sahara Reporters publications. In July twenty twenty, in his judgment,

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Justice Abiora Eguat awarded one hundred thousand nairas against the litigants,

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affirming the argument of our attorney, Marshal Abubaka that they

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had no right to sue on Malami’s behalf, just as

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you have no right to act as proxy for President

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Bolahamed Tenubu. Defamation, the judge reminded, is a personal taught

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The AGF should have gone to court himself if he

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felt defamed. It is elementary that only the person defamed

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can sue. Therefore, your attempt to demand a retraction is

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an incompetent and unlawful attempt to hold the president’s brief.

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Section twenty two of the nineteen ninety nine Constitution requires

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the press to uphold the government’s responsibility and accountability to

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the people. Section thirty nine guarantees every citizen the right

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to freedom of expression, to hold opinions and to receive

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an impart information without interference. Article nine of the African

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Charter on Human and People’s Rights provides the same. Even

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in the UK, sedition and libel laws have been repealed

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as archaic relics of a bygone era. The UN Human

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Rights Committee, in General Comment number thirty four has declared

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a free, uncensored media essential to democracy. Courts across Africa,

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including Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court and the African Court innesir Canate

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versus Pukina Fasso, have ruled the criminal defamation is unjustifiable

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in a democracy. Nigeria’s own Court of Appeal in Arthur

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Awanquo versus State nineteen eighty five, struck down sedition laws

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when Nawanquo was convicted for criticisze as in Governor jim

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In Wobodo. The court held that sedition was unconstitutional and

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animical to free speech. Justice adi Kae in IGP versus

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a NPP asked how long Nigerians must suffer under colonial

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era public order ordinances designed to gag descent. Criticism is

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indispensable in a democracy. Freedom of speech includes the right

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to say what those in power find uncomfortable. Justice Olatawa

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reminded us that citizens must defend their hard one freedom

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of expression and that those in public office must not

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be intolerant of criticism. Where boundaries are crossed, the remedy

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is civil libel, not unlawful repression. The dss’s desire to

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please the powers that be has always destroyed institutions while

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building strong men. But where are those strong men today?

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After your service broke laws and trampled rights to protect them.

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Rather than vilification, we should be commended for lie moving

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up to our constitutional responsibility to hold leaders accountable. I

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am glad you made reference to my constant desire to

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seek change, the very drive that led me to run

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for the position of President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

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Even though my commitments and convictions predate partisan political endeavors.

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It is from that same line of conviction that I

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have adopted an uncompromising stance ensuring that this country does

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not continue down the path of perdition. You have no

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business telling me how to criticize the president, but knowing

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the nature of your service, it is clear you have

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not learned your lessons. 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. Aluter Continuer Victoria Asserta, Yours in

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unwavering service to Nigeria. Omi Yle Saware, former presidential candidate.

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African Action Congress AAC, stated as one Ledley bring in

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you’ve been niece in a mortgage is a way