Mr. Festus Keyamo, Minister of State for Labour and
Employment, has revealed that the social media platform, Twitter which was
banned by the Federal Government in June 2021 has agreed to conditions laid out
by the government.
The Minister, who made this known on Sunday during an
interview with Channels Television, said the committee set up by the Federal
Government to review the operations of the microblogging platform has made
significant progress.
According to Keyamo, who is also a member of the committee,
the Federal Government suspended the platform to recalibrate the relationship
between the both parties.
“The reason the president took that step is to recalibrate
our relationship with Twitter and not to drive them away from our country.
“That recalibration, we have started it and the President
graciously added me to the committee.
“We also set up a technical committee to interface with
Twitter and come up with a lot of conditions for them to fulfill for us to lift
the suspension.
“It was Twitter that reached out to the Federal Government
to say they want to know what and what they can do to straighten up the
relationship with the Federal Government and so, we have gone far but I may
not, at this forum, let out a lot but we gave them a lot of conditions and they
have agreed to all the conditions,” he stated.
The operations of the platform were suspended in June 5,
2021, for allegedly allowing some contents capable of threatening the corporate
existence of the country.
It was alleged that the self-acclaimed leader of the
Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu was using the platform to
incite violence in the country prior to his rearrest.
The suspension also came a few days after the social media
platform deleted President Muhammadu Buhari’s controversial post against the
people of the Southeastern region.
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