The armed services is at nowadays monitoring the activities of Nigerians on the social media for loathe speech, anti-government together with anti-security information.
Director of Defence Information, Major-General John Enenche, told Channels Television that the motion became necessary inwards the lite of troubling activities together with misinformation capable of jeopardizing the unity of the country.
His comments come upwards less than 48 hours after President Muhammadu Buhari said inwards his national broadcast that about of the give-and-take on social media inwards his absence crossed the business together with left him distressed.
For Major General Enenche, the social media has ever been a challenge all over the basis together with for the military, it is no different.
“It is a double-edged sword together with nosotros are likewise having a combat of it,” he said when he appeared on Channels Television’s News At 10, hours after President Buhari met amongst service chiefs together with ordered them to strengthen their operations.
“Imagine when the President came dorsum together with addressed the nation, non upwards to xxx minutes later, a imitation vocalism communication of the Commander-In-Chief was beingness circulated inwards social club to create what? To derail the people. If you lot are non really precipitous together with if you lot didn’t heed to the vocalism communication or you lot don’t stimulate got a re-create of it similar I had it close immediately, you lot wouldn’t know. So, looking at it from that perspective, it is a challenge everywhere.”
Having observed the possibility that the social media tin displace locomote misused the armed services has taken steps to address that. One of such steps is the institution of strategic media centres.
“What are nosotros doing? In the military, nosotros are at nowadays taking on it to a greater extent than seriously than ever. We stimulate got our strategic media centres that monitor the social media to locomote able to sieve out together with react to all the ones that volition locomote anti-government, locomote anti-military, (and) locomote anti-security,” the armed services principal continued.
“We tackle them appropriately amongst appropriate responses. Ahead of that, nosotros are likewise proactive. We stimulate got measures inwards place, scientific measures to locomote able to sieve this information together with likewise to instruct Earth together with allow them know that about of this information they are getting is non genuine are non truthful together with their objective is an anti-corporate existence of this country.”
There has been a rising inwards attacks past times Boko Haram terrorists together with it is 1 of the things the President advised the service chiefs to check. While the armed services intends to create only that, Major General Enenche said what they terrorists are doing is non surprising.
He said, “Like I stimulate got said before, it is non unexpected beingness that they stimulate got been degraded, decimated together with actually busted at army camp naught together with other cities at that spot through the air bombardment together with raids past times members of the military, especially the army. So you lot volition meet them spreading out similar ants that stimulate got been busted from an anthill.”
According to him, the terrorists stimulate got benefitted inwards their attacks from the unending collaboration past times insiders together with sympathisers amid the residents inwards the North East.
“However, I desire to assure the full general world together with Nigerians that measures are inwards house to get down to stimulate got on them together with get down to stimulate got them out. However highly placed anyone is or whatsoever insider or collaborator is, nosotros are on transcend of the province of affairs together with nosotros are outset to instruct our information to get down to lead maintain them appropriately,” he said.
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