Facebook causes stir in Jigawa

Posted by admin Jigawa, State News Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

Authorities in Jigawa State have withdrawn a court case instituted against one Mukhtar Ibrahim Aminu, for allegedly defaming the state governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido, on a social networking site, Facebook.

According to a report by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Hausa Service, monitored in Kaduna on Thursday, Aminu was arrested and handed over to the headquarters of the Nigeria Police in Abuja, where he was allegedly detained for nine days.

He was later moved to Jigawa where he was arraigned before a magistrate’s court presided over by Justice Mustapha Sa’ad, who ordered that Aminu be remanded in prison custody for a week.

The case has, however, attracted international condemnation as a pro- democracy group of Nigerians in the UK, the Nigeria Liberty Forum, had mobilised against Governor Lamido on Facebook, denouncing the alleged incarceration of Aminu.

The leader of the group, Mr. Kayode Ogundamisi, said they condemned in very strong terms the attempt by Governor Lamido to stifle the voice of opposition.

He said injustice to one person in Jigawa State was equal to injustice to any other person in Nigeria and it was their responsibility to let the world know about it. When reminded about the alleged negative intensity of Aminu’s prayers against Governor Lamido on Facebook, Ogundamisi said there was no part in the prayer in which the young man had called on the people to come and kill the governor or to launch an attack on him.

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