Twitter played a key role bringing Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari to power after the 2014 #BringBackOurGirls campaign. Today his government has suspended Twitter "indefinitely" two days after the site deleted a post on his account.
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This has nothing to do with a recently deleted tweet but everything to do with getting back at Twitter for giving young Nigerians a voice against police brutality during the EndSARS movement!
In 1949, Albert Einstein warned that the time would come “when the very rich so controlled the means of communication that it would be almost impossible for ordinary people to make informed decisions and so democracy would then be broken”.
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a) If you have a car with tinted glass, remove them with immediate effect.
b) Remove military/police stickers from your vehicles.
c) Do not engage in any type of sharp argument with police/army at any checkpoint.
d) Ditch black clothes.
These times shall pass.
The following principle about power is important. It helps us reflect on dynamics behind conflicts, including the geopolitical conflicts between countries, the political conflicts within countries, the conflicts between & within organizations, & the conflicts between people. 1/2
You'd find folks making a case for Buhari by saying that he only mentioned criminals not the entire region. So the 3 million people that perished in the 30 month war were all criminals? Can you hear yourselves?