Malami made this known in a statement by Dr Umar Gwandu, his Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations in Abuja on Sunday.
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Senior Researcher, Africa Programme at the CPJ, Jonathan Rozen, who made the call, added that the challenges confronting journalists cut across borders.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has dragged the federal government and state governments to ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja over “the frequent and repressive application of the Cybercrime Act to harass, intimidate, arbitrarily arrest, detain, and unfairly prosecute anyone found publishing views or facts perceived to be critical of the government at the federal and state levels and government officials”.