CTC of Judgment by ECOWAS Court Prohibiting Prosecution for ‘Cyberstalking’
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In the suit number ECW/CCJ/APP/09/19 brought by SERAP, the ECOWAS Court ordered the Buhari’s government to repeal section 24 of Cybercrime Act by deleting the provisions, consistent with Nigeria’s obligation under Article 1 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights.
The court ruled that Section 24 of Nigeria’s Cybercrime Act is inconsistent and incompatible with Article 9 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to which Nigeria is a state party.
The unlawful provisions of section 24 of the Cybercrime Act among others criminalise sending or causing to be sent an ‘offensive, insulting or annoying’ message via a computer system.
It is therefore contrary to the rule of law for the police to charge anyone with supposed ‘cyberstalking’.