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Senator Shehu Sani, representing Kaduna central Senatorial District has described the monitoring of social media by monitoring by security agencies as a 'joke'.
Shehu's reaction is coming as the Director of Defence Information, Major-General John Enenche, on Wednesday said the Military now has "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.”
His comments come less than 48 hours after President Muhammadu Buhari said in his national broadcast that some of the discussion on social media in his absence crossed the line and left him distressed.
But Senator Sani on his social media account on Thursday decried over the clampdown on social media by the military.
He said: “When security agencies monitors postings on social media,then we are now in a 'Big Brother state'"
Related: Nigerian Military Begins Monitoring Of Social Media For Anti-Government Information
Shehu's reaction is coming as the Director of Defence Information, Major-General John Enenche, on Wednesday said the Military now has "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.”
His comments come less than 48 hours after President Muhammadu Buhari said in his national broadcast that some of the discussion on social media in his absence crossed the line and left him distressed.
But Senator Sani on his social media account on Thursday decried over the clampdown on social media by the military.
He said: “When security agencies monitors postings on social media,then we are now in a 'Big Brother state'"
Related: Nigerian Military Begins Monitoring Of Social Media For Anti-Government Information
