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The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has filed a lawsuit at a Federal High Court in Abuja against President Muhammadu Buhari to declare illegal and unconstitutional the plan by the administration to track and monitor What Sapp messages, phone calls, and text messages of Nigerians.
SERAP also seek a declaration that any monitoring of WhatSapp messages, phone calls and text messages is oppressive as it threatens and violates sections 37 and 39 of Nigerian Constitution 1999 as amended.
It argued that the plan to monitor WhatSapp messages, phone calls and text messages is an arbitrary interference by the administration into respect for family and private life.
The suit followed the proposal in the Supplementary Appropriation Act signed in July 2021 to spend N4.87bn to monitor private calls and messages.
