Force Public Relations Officer, Force Headquarters Abuja, Adejobi Olumuyiwa warned netizens against cursing anyone online.
This is coming after Olamide Thomas, an Endsars advocate who was arrested by Nigeria Police courier service in Somolu Lagos on the 13th of December, over a video she posted on facebook cursing the ruling president and his family.
Thomas who was speaking in Yoruba in the video had fervently included the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, the Force PRO, Adejobi Olumuyiwa in her curses, emphasizing that they will bury their children because she was assaulted during the protest.
The Endsars advocate had made the video in October during the Endsars remembrance agitation, where some citizens went out to protest for better living condition and she was allegedly locked up and brutalized.
Thomas however is not the only culprit as Kemi Badenoch, Leader of the British Conservative Party opened up a can of worms about Nigerian police, though she didn’t curse anyone, only narrated her experience and that of her family in the hand of the personnel.
Badenoch had compared her Nigeria Police experience to that of the United Kingdom in an interview, stating openly that the NPF had stolen her brother’s shoes and watch.
The Conservative leader’s narration had encouraged some Nigerians social media users to post their individual experiences, where most of them cursed the personnel and doomed them to eternal perdition.
However, this does not sit well with the Force PRO who alluded that curses are not ‘freedom of expression or criticism”, but cyberbullying which is punishable by law.
Adejobi had made the statement on his X account on Friday stating: “Raining direct curses on someone online is cyberbullying, not expression of freedom or criticism. And cyberbullying, which is even different from defamation, is a criminal offence and punishable. Be guided.” He warned
The PRO warning does not sit well with some of the netizens who have accused Adejobi to be ignorant of the very law he is working for.

By; Adeoye Olorunseun Elizabeth