The Director of Defence Information, Major-General John Eneche while addressing news men from Sunrise Daily on Channel Tv noted that The military monitors hate speeches on social media are just for an analytical purpose only, the military has nothing to do with the posters nor the commenters.
 |
| Major-General John Enenche Director of Defence Information Photo credit: Pulse.ng |
According to John Enenche, he said:
"There was nothing like that. We do not have the power to arrest people for hate speeches. It is just false assertion, against the military, and against my humble self that I said that we will be arresting people or checkmating people.
"The military is not going to be monitoring hate speeches. Did I tell you hate speech in your recordings? We have a strategic media centre, our strategic media centre monitors the media, simple. And it is like that all over the world.
"And we take that because it helps us to transform the nature of the intelligence to enable us to prepare for whatever call up we get to ensure security in this country.
"Let me tell you and tell the public without fear of anybody; we are trained to do threat analysis of anything that would threaten the security of this country.
"So, it is part of our threat analysis. Any person can interpret it to mean that it is a follow up to the speech of the Vice-President (Yemi Osinbajo), the then-Acting President and then the Minister of Interior (Abdulrahman Dambazau); then that person can be right.
"Where do we take instruction from, where do we get information from? But on the whole, it is part of what is called threat analysis."
The social media users went sadly when information came to their hearing that the military has some strategic media centres that will help in monitoring hate speeches and screen anti-governmental activities on the net.
Also, in the course of the interview, Major-General John Enenche described the social media as a "double-edged sword" and also said that the military will be monitoring activities that might result to disunity in the country
The social media users went sadly when information came to their hearing that the military has some strategic media centres that will help in monitoring hate speeches and screen anti-governmental activities on the net.
Also, in the course of the interview, Major-General John Enenche described the social media as a "double-edged sword" and also said that the military will be monitoring activities that might result to disunity in the country
He said, "We have our strategic media centres that monitor the social media to be able to sieve out and react to all the ones that will be anti-government, be anti-military, (and) be anti-security.
"We tackle them appropriately with appropriate responses. Ahead of that, we are also proactive. We have measures in place, scientific measures to be able to sieve this information and also to get the public and let them know that some of this information they are getting is not genuine are not true and their objective is an anti-corporate existence of this country."
His words echoed those of President Muhammadu Buhari in his national address on Monday, August 21, as he expressed displeasure at social media comments that "crossed our national red lines by daring to question our collective existence as a nation."
The president promised to crack down on anything that disturbs the unity of the country, saying that it is "settled and not negotiable."
Feel free to share this news
To read More news, Click Here
Feel free to share this news
To read More news, Click Here
Post a Comment