Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project(SERAP )has actually asked President Muhammadu Buhari to approve the publication of Nigeria’s contract with Twitter.

The federal government raised the ban on January 12, 2022, 7 months after the sanction took effect following the removal of Buhari’s tweet.

SERAP advised the President to direct the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed to widely release the details of the arrangement.

A letter dated January 15, signed by Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, stated this would ensure that the conditions are not utilized as pretexts to reduce legitimate discourse.

SERAP worried the significance of promoting openness, responsibility, and assisting to mitigate hazards to Nigerians’ rights online, in addition to any disturbance with online privacy in ways that discourage flexibility and expression.

The memo checked out in part: “Any contract with social networks companies need to meet constitutional and global requirements, consisting of legality, requirement, proportionality and authenticity.

“This indicates that any conditions for lifting the suspension of Twitter should meet the requirements of regular legal procedures and restrict federal government discretion. Covertly concurred conditions will stop working these fundamental requirements.”

It advised the authorities of their duty to show that the conditions do not threaten or break Nigerians rights which they remain in pursuit of a legitimate objective in a democratic society.

The body observed that ìn lifting the ban, the federal government utilized extremely broad terms and phrases like ‘restricted publication’, ‘Nigerian laws’, ‘national culture and history’.

SERAP noted that the “open-ended terms and expressions” might be utilized to suppress the genuine workout of human rights online.

“Any arrangement with social media companies need to not be utilized as a ploy to tighten up federal government control over access to the web, screen internet activity, or to increase online censorship.”

The rights group informed the Buhari administration to respect Section 39 of the Constitution, Article 9 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and short article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.