As indicated by Premium Times, Mrs. Eyakenyi (PDP/Akwa Ibom South) said in an announcement on Wednesday that if the two dubious bills – Prohibition of Hate Speech Bill and Internet Falsehood and Manipulation Bill – are passed into law, they will annul the opportunity of articulation of the Nigerian individuals.
"The commands we hold as congresspersons are in trust for the individuals and the forces we practice are assigned by the individuals with whom power dwells," Mrs. Eyakenyi said in the announcement.
"In this manner, any endeavor to quiet down and compromise the proprietors of the order from unreservedly holding their suppositions in accordance with our laws will emphatically be opposed by me."
Mrs. Eyakenyi said opportunity of articulation, other than being a key human right, as revered in the Nigerian constitution, the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, and the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights, is a fundamental fixing that continues a law-based framework.
To move against the people groups' opportunity to convey what needs be, she stated, adds up to deteriorating into fascism.
"The ECOWAS Court of Justice and the African Court of Human Rights have in the past pronounced comparative endeavors as unlawful. Over the globe, encroachments on human rights and free press is condemnable," she said.
"We should, in this manner, be mindful so as not to depict ourselves as a nation that is sliding into prejudice and, we should not permit the rights we battled for and won to be revoked by misconstrued assessments.
"I, in this manner, censure in the most grounded terms, the proposed bits of enactment which in my judgment are not to the greatest advantage of our picture as Africa's Big Brother.
"Give it a chance to be on record that I remain against these bills and that my constituents dismiss them in totality. Capital punishment as peddled by one of the proposition is without contention over the top and such risky sign must not be conveyed to the universal network about our human rights records," the congressperson said.
Mrs. Eyakenyi said Nigeria as of now has adequate laws, for example, the Penal Code, Criminal Code, and Cyber Crimes Act of 2015 to handle despise discourse and cybercrimes.
"There is, in this manner, no support for over beating issues that are as of now enough dealt with by our laws.
"I should, in any case, express that our concern doesn't lie in lawmaking yet law authorization and execution. What we need most as a nation is guaranteeing that the different law authorization organizations do their obligations as they should," she said.
Nonconformists on Wednesday attacked the National Assembly, requesting that the congresspersons drop the online networking guideline bill.
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