Tu-Baba
Plans by Nigerian government to regulate social media is perceived as irresponsible. This is the thinking of Nigerian top music act, Tuface Idibia who said that a responsible government would not talk about regulating social media at a time the youths are demanding an end to bad governance, amongst others.
The minister of information, Lai Mohammed on Saturday said the Buhari-led government had no intention of shutting down social media, pointing out that the government had regards for freedom of speech and therefore planned to only regulate social media in order to stop sending fake news and promoting hate speech.
In his reaction via a post on his tweeter handle, Tuface urged the leaders to do the needful first before regulating social media.
Tweeted he: “It is the irresponsibility of Nigeria’s successive governments, political elites, corporate greed and thievery that made social media enter Nigeria without regulation in the first place. All this talk against it now stinks of desperation from irresponsible leaders.Do the needful 1st!
“’If to say them be responsible governments no be now them for dey talk this one.’ It shows how irresponsible all of them have been Everything I talk na PDP and APC join o. Don’t get it twisted. They are the same”.
Tuface, however, added that everything was expected to be regulated in order to maintain law and order in the country but not in the direction the government was planning.
Added he: “Everything is supposed to be regulated. There must be law and order, but no be this one wey dem dey talk. This their own na fowl nyash wey open dem wan cover”.
