Human Rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, has tackled Police Public Relations Officer PPRO, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, for saying “raining direct curses on someone online is cyberbullying which is a criminal offence and punishable”
In a post shared on X today
December 20, Adejobi wrote;
Reacting via his X handle, Inibehe said Adejobi's statement reeks of ‘ignorance.’ He stated that no part of the Nigerian law says that raining curses on anyone is punishable. He wrote;
‘’This is ignorance of the law
raised to power 1000.
The fact that this very
ridiculous opinion is from the spokesperson of the primary law enforcement
agency in Nigeria says a lot about the decadence of our institutions.
To be clear, raining curses on
someone is not a criminal offence, and I challenge the Force PRO to cite any
law that supports his statement.
By virtue of Section 36 (12) of
the Nigerian Constitution, for an act or omission of be termed a crime, it must
be expressly and specifically defined as such under a written law.
This Force PRO has a history of
inventing imagery offences from his head.
Also, curses do not constitute
threat to the life of the person that is cursed.
Curses do not have effect or
value in the eyes of the law for the simple reason that they are premised on
superstition, or at best the supernatural forces.
For example, telling someone
“it shall not be well with you” is a prayer; prayer can be positive or
negative. Wishing someone evil is also not a matter for legal redress.
The law does not concern itself
with trifling things or spiritual matters.
What is more appalling is the
fact that the supposed image maker of the @PoliceNG does not know that the
Cybercrimes Act had since been amended, and that the notorious wordings of the
provisions of the old Section 24 which the police has been using to witch-hunt
critics has been repealed.I urge Nigerians to ignore the misleading statement
of @Princemoye1 as same is baseless.
What a shame!''
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