The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps NYSC, Brig. Gen. Olakunle Nafiu, has said corps members are not exempt from Nigeria’s cyberbullying and social media laws during their mandatory national service year.
Nafiu disclosed this during an interview programme with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Abuja, emphasising that corps members remained subject to constitutional provisions and laws regulating online conduct.
According to him, corps members are 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.
He added that 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.
The fact that they are corps members does not absolve them from being citizens bound by the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
