The Director of Defence Information, Major-General John Enenche, has
disclosed in an interview with Channels TV that the activities of
Nigerians on social media are now being monitored for hate speech,
anti-government and anti-security information by the military.
According to Enenche, social media is a double-edged sword and the military is now getting involved to address its misuse.
“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.“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.“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.