The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project SERAP has urged President Bola Tinubu to stop the “weaponisation” of the Department of State Services and other security agencies in the country, and instead focus on ways to revive the national economic hardship.
SERAP noted that the free expression of fundamental human rights is significant and should not be suppressed, accusing the Tinubu-led government of “threats of baseless lawsuits” against human rights defenders, activists, journalists, and other citizens.
In a statement dated October 19, 2024, signed by SERAP’s deputy director, Kolawole Oluwadare, and obtained by newsmen on Sunday, the organisation urged Tinubu to “direct the Department of State Services to immediately withdraw the baseless defamation lawsuit brought by their proxies against our organisation and management staff.”
“It is critical for human rights defenders, activists, journalists, and other citizens to be able to organise and freely exercise their human rights without the threat of baseless lawsuits from your government or its security agencies and/or their proxies.”
