committed by the Defendant State against its members and associates, this Court, pursuant to Article 10 (d) of the Supplementary Protocol mentioned above and based on its jurisprudence, declares that the present action is admissible. ON THE MERIT 86. The Court now verifies: a) Whether the provisions of Section 24 of Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, etc.) Act, 2015 violate the right to freedom of expression enshrined in Articles 9, paragraphs 1 and 2 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights and 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. 87. The section 24 of the “Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, etc.) Act, 2015”, which provides as follows: (1) “Any person who Knowingly or intentionally sends a message or other matter by means of computer system or network that: (a) Is grossly offensive or phonographic or an indecent obscene or menacing character or causes any such message or matter to be so sent; or (b) He knows to be false, for the purpose of annoyance, inconvenience, danger, obstruction, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmityhatred, ill will or needless anxiety to another or caused such a message to be sent: commits an offence under this act and shall be liable on conviction to fine of not more than N7,000,000.00 or imprisonment. (2) Any person who knowingly or intentionally transmits or causes the transmission of any communication through a computer system or network(a) Bully, threaten or harass another person, where such communication places another person in fear of death, violence or bodily harm or to another person; (b) containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to harm the person of another, any demand or request for a ransom for the release of 21