SOUTHEAST LEADERS SHOULD SUPPORT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA REGULATION, SAYS LAI MOHAMMED:
{…The Purported Massacre Leading To The EndSARS Protest Only Happened In The Social Media~ Lai Mohammed}
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The governors and leaders of the southeast zone have been asked to support the federal government on its move to regulate the social media and check fake news and misinformation of Nigerians.
The appeal was made by the Minister of Information and Culture, Mr Lai Mohammed, on Saturday while speaking at a presidential delegation interaction with Southeast governors and other leaders of the zone in Enugu.
Mohammed said that the #EndSARS protest and agitation that turned violent and destructive in the country were brought about by fake news emanating from the negative use of the social media.
According to him, the purported massacre leading to the EndSARS protest only happened in the social media.
He said some Nigerians were misled by fake news on social media which turned out as hatred for the police as well as public and private property.
“It is time we must regulate the social media; regulation in this term does not mean stopping or gagging the social media but making its users more responsible.
“It is in ensuring that the social media and its content are used for positive deeds and to promote peace and oneness of the country,’’ he said.
According to him, making social media more responsible will check the sad experience of what a hate speech emanating from a fake news did to Rwanda where over 800,000 people were massacred.
The minister also enumerated various social intervention programmes targeted at the youths to engage them and create financial opportunities for them and other Nigerians.
He cited the initiatives to include the N75billion Youth Intervention Fund; the N75billion MSME fund, N-Power Scheme, Artisan Financial Credit Scheme, Trader Money and Farm Money.
He said that no administration in the history of the country had put in place lots of intervention programmes to cushion poverty and create employment as the current one.
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