Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Meta Platforms Incorporated (Facebook), Mark Zuckerberg, to immediately pay the $220 million fine imposed on the company by the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC), and subsequently upheld by the Competition and Consumer Protection Tribunal.

The group urged Zuckerberg and Meta to provide (in addition to the fine) justice and effective remedies, including adequate compensation and guarantees of non-repetition for victims of the grave violations of Nigerian consumers, data protection and privacy laws and international human rights standards.

SERAP also implored the duo to immediately pay the $35,000 awarded by the Tribunal to the FCCPC as the cost of the investigation.

The organisation charged Zuckerberg to immediately halt the violations found by the Tribunal and prevent their recurrence, as well as ensure the accountability of any person(s) responsible for the violations.

Last Friday, the Competition and Consumer Protection Tribunal upheld the $220 million fine against Meta by the FCCPC for the grave violations of consumers, data protection and privacy laws.

In a letter over the weekend signed by its deputy director, Kolawole Oluwadare, SERAP said that as Chairman and CEO, Zuckerberg ought to ensure enhanced transparency, human rights due diligence, accountability and remediation by Meta.