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Nigerian Military:We Now Monitor Social Media For Anti-Government And Anti-Military Information

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Director of Defence Information, Major-General John Enenche, told Channels Television that he became necessary in the light of troubling activities and misinformation capable of jeopardizing the unity of the country.

His comments come less than 48 hours after President Muhammadu Buhari said in his national broadcast that some of the discussion on social media in his absence crossed the line and left him distressed.

For Major General Enenche, the social media has always been a challenge all over the world and for the military, it is no different.

“It is a double-edged sword and we are also having a bit of it,” he said when he appeared on Channels Television’s News At 10, hours after President Buhari met with service chiefs and ordered them to strengthen their operations.

“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. 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.”

Having observed the possibility that the social media can be misused the military has taken steps to address that. One of such steps is the establishment of strategic media centres.

“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,” the military chief continued.

“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.”

There has been a rise in attacks by Boko Haram terrorists and it is one of the things the President advised the service chiefs to check. While the military intends to do just that, Major General Enenche said what they terrorists are doing is not surprising.

He said, “Like I have said before, it is not unexpected being that they have been degraded, decimated and really busted at camp zero and other cities there through the air bombardment and raids by members of the military, particularly the army. So you will see them spreading out like ants that have been busted from an anthill.”

According to him, the terrorists have benefitted in their attacks from the unending collaboration by insiders and sympathisers among the residents in the North East.

“However, I want to assure the general public and Nigerians that measures are in place to begin to take on them and begin to take them out. However highly placed anyone is or any insider or collaborator is, we are on top of the situation and we are beginning to get our information to begin to handle them appropriately,” he said.

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9 Comments

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But Nig army are also terrorist organisation like boko haram and herdsmen. mind your job and stop taking over the job of Law makers. Zombies!

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So those killing innocence lPOBs are called what? Mr. Army officers.

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So those killing innocence lPOBs are called what? Mr. Army officers.

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only in a zoo country you will here something like this.where is nigeria freedom of speech law?is it not working again?who are these terrorist and what did they said?

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Stupid! Stupid!! Stupid! Bunkums! Scumbags!!! Is that the only thing you mediocres are capable of??? You should as well comme into homes and monitor our kitchen pots and know if we used buhari's health to ccook!

You guys are really so lazy to do the jobs you're paid for!
The one thing you know is the hound down innocent civilian who has every single right to freedom of expression and show their grievances at an incapable, worthless and a sorta thorn-in-the flesh , never-do-well, weak very weak Government!

Get a life, y'all!

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