Reverse Twitter Ban Immediately, USAID Warns FG

 

The United States of America has once more advised the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to rethink and rescind the Twitter ban in Nigeria.

This message was once conveyed by a pinnacle American official and senior diplomat, who is the present day administrator of the US Agency for International Development, Samantha Power.

Power, in a tweet on her demonstrated deal with on Wednesday, wrote, “There are almost forty million Twitter customers in #Nigeria, and the united states is domestic to Africa’s greatest tech hub.

“This suspension is nothing extra than state-sanctioned denial of free speech and need to be reversed immediately. #KeepItOn.”

Recall that the Federal Government via the workplace of the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, had banned Twitter.

Much later, the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, had criminalised every body getting access to the microblogging website online via any different means, even although he logged on to Twitter to deactivate his account on Tuesday.

Prominent Nigerians had persevered to Tweet, announcing the ban is in opposition to free speech and imperative human rights.

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Projects and 176 Concerned Nigerians had on Tuesday filed a go well with towards the FG in the Economic Community of West African States, urging them to unban the site.

All this was due to the fact the president had noted that many of these misbehaving in the country were too young and did not witness the gruesomeness of Nigeria’s 1967-70 war, announcing he would “treat them in the language they would understand.”