ALERT! Military now monitoring your comments on social media

The Nigerian military says it is now monitoring the social media
for comments that could be “anti-government, anti-military or
anti-security”.

John Enenche, director of defence information, said this when he
appeared on Channels TV on Wednesday.

He said the measure became necessary in the wake of hate
speeches and comments threatening Nigeria’s unity.

Eneche spoke two days after President Muhammadu Buhari expressed
worries that some comments on the social media “have crossed our
national red lines”.

Enenche said as part of measures aimed at tackling this, the
military has established “strategic media centres”.

“Imagine when the president came back and addressed the nation,
not up to 30 minutes later, a fake speech of the commander-in-chief
was being circulated in order to do what? To derail the people,” he
said.

“If you are not very sharp and if you didn’t listen to the
speech or you don’t have a copy of it like I had it almost
immediately, you wouldn’t know. So, looking at it from that
perspective, it is a challenge everywhere.

“What are we doing? In the military, we are now taking on it
more seriously than ever. 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.”

The Nigerian military says it is now monitoring the social media
for comments that could be “anti-government, anti-military or
anti-security”.

John Enenche, director of defence information, said this when he
appeared on Channels TV on Wednesday.

He said the measure became necessary in the wake of hate
speeches and comments threatening Nigeria’s unity.

Eneche spoke two days after President Muhammadu Buhari expressed
worries that some comments on the social media “have crossed our
national red lines”.

Enenche said as part of measures aimed at tackling this, the
military has established “strategic media centres”.

“Imagine when the president came back and addressed the nation,
not up to 30 minutes later, a fake speech of the commander-in-chief
was being circulated in order to do what? To derail the people,” he
said.

“If you are not very sharp and if you didn’t listen to the
speech or you don’t have a copy of it like I had it almost
immediately, you wouldn’t know. So, looking at it from that
perspective, it is a challenge everywhere.

“What are we doing? In the military, we are now taking on it
more seriously than ever. 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.”