Military monitoring social media for hate speech – Enenche

Social media is not any more a concealing spot for detest discourse, hostile to government and against security in Nigeria as the platforms are currently being observed for information by the military. 

Director of Defense Information, Major-General John Enenche, made the disclosure on Channels Television's News at 10 on Wednesday, saying the move ended up plainly important in the light of upsetting exercises and deception equipped for endangering the solidarity of the nation. 

Enenche made the remark under 48 hours after President Muhammadu Buhari stated, in his national communicate, that a portion of the exchange via web-based networking media in his nonappearance went too far and left him bothered. 

Enenche held that the online networking has dependably been a test everywhere throughout the world and for the military, it is the same. 

"It is a twofold edged sword and we are likewise having a touch of it," he said. 

"Envision when the President returned and tended to the country, not up to 30 minutes

after the fact, a fake discourse of the Commander-In-Chief was being circled with a specific end goal to do what? To wreck the general population. In the event that you are not sharp and in the event that you didn't tune in to the discourse or you don't have a duplicate of it like I had it very quickly, you wouldn't know. In this way, taking a gander at it from that point of view, it is a test all over."

"What's happening with we? In the military, we are currently considering on it more important than any other time in recent memory. We have our vital media focuses that screen the online networking to have the capacity to sifter out and respond to every one of the ones that will be against government, be hostile to military, (and) be against security," the military boss proceeded. 

"We handle them properly with fitting reactions. In front of that, we are additionally proactive. We have measures set up, logical measures to have the capacity to strainer this data and furthermore to get the general population and let them realize that some of this data they are getting is not certified are not valid and their goal is an against corporate presence of this nation."