Rights Activist, Omoyele Sowore has described the social media bill as a plagiarized bill that’s dead on arrival, accusing government of being foremost agents of falsehood on social media.
Sowore spoke at the public hearing of the bill at the National Assembly where he mentioned that rather than debate the plagiarized Singapore social media bill, the outdated Nigerian constitution should be addressed.
Sowore, who is under trial for treasonable felony, queried the rationale behind sponsoring a bill of such.
“How can anyone sit to say they want to tackle social media under accusations of misinformation and the likes, when federal government themselves are foremost agents of false information.
Else, how can they tell us that the economy is working when the economy is not truly working.
“Even the Nigerian constitution is outdated and should be re-addressed, rather than talking about a social media bill that was plagiarized from Singapore as admitted by the sponsor of the bill.
“Conclusively, this bill is dead, we only came for it’s burial.”