BIAFRA: Lai Mohammed Reveals How Facebook Is Helping IPOB
Afnews Editor
May 17, 2022
Nigeria's Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, has told Facebook to do more in barring the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), from using its platform to incite violence.
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Mohammed stated this during a meeting with a team from Facebook in Abuja on Tuesday.
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The Minister claimed several people have been killed because of IPOB's activities.
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"I have called this meeting to enable us to discuss the increasing use of Facebook by separatists and anarchists, especially those of them based outside the country, to instigate violence and ethnic hatred in Nigeria.
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"For whatever reason, they seem to have now chosen Facebook as their platform of choice. And their tools include disinformation, incendiary statements and hate speech.
"They use Facebook broadcasts to reach their followers, who are in thousands. They tag those opposed to their violent ways as 'saboteurs' who must be attacked, maimed and killed. They use both English and their local language as it suits them.
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"Our social media people have been monitoring these separatists, anarchists and purveyors of hate, and have been reporting their atrocious actions to Facebook, but all they get are default responses that their complaints have been received and are being looked into.
"Most often than not, nothing is done about such complaints. The truth is that whatever Facebook is doing to check these people is mere tokenism and is totally ineffective,ÔÇØ Mohammed said.
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