Micro-blogging platform Twitter rejected the Nigerian government’s demand that the account of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu be blocked, Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed disclosed on Tuesday.
Mohammed stated this when he featured on ‘Politics
Nationwide,’ a Radio Nigeria call-in programme in Abuja, according to the News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
The minister insisted that Twitter was suspended in Nigeria
because the platform was being used to promote the views of those who wanted to
destabilise the country.
Mohammed said that it was unfair to conclude that Twitter
was suspended because it deleted a tweet posted by President Muhammadu Buhari.
“Twitter has become a platform of choice for a particular
separatist promoter,” he said.
“The promoter consistently used the platform to direct his
loyalists to kill Nigerian soldiers and policemen, run-down INEC offices and
destroy all symbols of Nigeria’s sovereignty.
“Every attempt to persuade Twitter to deny its platform to
this separatist leader was not taken serious.”
The minister added that the Nigerian government had no
apology to offer to those who were unhappy with the suspension of Twitter’s operations
in the country.
He argued that a country must exist in peace before citizens
could exercise freedom of speech.
Speaking further, Mohammed blamed the violence and
destruction of property recorded in parts of the country during the #EndSARS
protests on Twitter and its founder, Jack Dorsey.
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