The Director of Defence
Information, Maj. Gen. John Enenche, has stated that the military was not
planning to arrest anyone on social media that makes anti-military or
anti-government comments because they do not have the power to make such
arrests.
The Major General disclosed this
during an interview with Channels TV, Yesterday.
Enenche said the military was
just going to monitor the social media space but it has no power to arrest
anyone that makes hate speech on social media.
He was a guest on the same
channel on August 23rd where he disclosed that the military was monitoring
social media for comments that are anti-military, anti-government and
anti-security. Many Nigerians thought it meant that the military would soon
begin to arrest anyone that makes such comments online.
The anxiety in Nigerians grew
when Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, during his time as acting president, had
announced that hate speech would now be treated as an act of terrorism.
Enenche said, “There was nothing
like that. We do not have power to arrest people for hate speeches. It is just
false assertion, against the military, and against my humble self that I said
that we will be arresting people or checkmating people. The military is not going
to be monitoring hate speeches.
“Did I tell you hate speech in
your recordings? We have a strategic media centre, our strategic media centre
monitors the media, simple. And it is like that all over the world. And we take
that because it helps us to transform the nature of the intelligence to enable
us to prepare for whatever call up we get to ensure security in this country,”
said Enenche.
“Let me tell you and tell the
public without fear of anybody; we are trained to do threat analysis of
anything that would threaten the security of this country. So, it is part of
our threat analysis,” He added.
“Any person can interpret it to
mean that it is a follow up to the speech of the Vice-President (Yemi
Osinbajo), the then Acting President and then the minister of interior; then
that person can be right.”
“Where do we take instruction
from, where do we get information from? But on the whole, it is part of what is
called threat analysis,” he said.
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