Standup9ja: Nigerian Military Now Monitors Your Comments On
Social Media
The Nigerian military says it is now monitoring the social
media for comments that could be “anti-government, anti-military or
anti-security”.
John Enenche, director of defence information, said this
when he appeared on Channels TV on Wednesday.
He said the measure became necessary in the wake of hate
speeches and comments threatening Nigeria’s unity.
Eneche spoke two days after President Muhammadu Buhari
expressed worries that some comments on the social media “have crossed our
national red lines”.
Enenche said as part of measures aimed at tackling this, the
military has established “strategic media centres”.
“Imagine when the president came back and addressed the
nation, not up to 30 minutes later, a fake speech of the commander-in-chief was
being circulated in order to do what? To derail the people,” he said.
“If you are not very sharp and if you didn’t listen to the
speech or you don’t have a copy of it like I had it almost immediately, you
wouldn’t know. So, looking at it from that perspective, it is a challenge
everywhere.
“What are we doing? In the military, we are now taking on it
more seriously than ever. We have our strategic media centres that monitor the
social media to be able to sieve out and react to all the ones that will be
anti-government, be anti-military, (and) be anti-security.
“We tackle them appropriately with appropriate responses.
Ahead of that, we are also proactive.
“We have measures in place, scientific measures to be able
to sieve this information and also to get the public and let them know that
some of this information they are getting is not genuine are not true and their
objective is an anti-corporate existence of this country.”
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