The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier General Olakunle Nafiu, has said corps members are not exempt from Nigeria’s cyberbullying and social media laws during their mandatory national service year.
 
Nafiu said this during an interview programme with the media in Abuja, emphasising that corps members remained subject to constitutional provisions and laws regulating online conduct.
 
According to him, corps members remain citizens of Nigeria and are fully subject to provisions of the Constitution and other extant laws regulating online conduct, cyber activities and public behaviour nationwide.
 
Nafiu explained that allegations of cyberbullying against corps members would be investigated and handled by relevant law enforcement agencies in accordance with the law, regardless of their status as serving corps members.
 
 He added that the NYSC was not mandated to provide legal representation for corps members involved in criminal or civil matters arising from social media activities and other online engagements.

 

 

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