At the National Economic Council Retreat, Prof Yemi Osinbajo took a stand against the use of hate speech, calling it terrorism. Moments after tweeting his thoughts on the matter, Twitter attacked, calling his utterances hypocrital. Nigerians reminded the Acting President of the pending cases of hate actions by the Federal Government that have been left unattended.
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FG has today drawn the line on hate speech. Hate speech is a specie of terrorism. The Terrorism Prevention Act 2011 as amended (1/3)
— Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (@ProfOsinbajo) August 17, 2017
defines terrorism as an act which deliberately done with malice which may seriously harm a country or is intended or can be (2/3)
— Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (@ProfOsinbajo) August 17, 2017
reasonably be regarded as having been done to seriously intimidate a population (3/3)
— Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (@ProfOsinbajo) August 17, 2017
Silence in such situations can only be seen as an endorsement. Hate speech & the promotion of the same through history from Nazi (1/3)
— Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (@ProfOsinbajo) August 17, 2017
Germany & the extermination of Jews to the Rwandan genocide succeeded in achieving their barbarous ends by the silence of influential (2/3)
— Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (@ProfOsinbajo) August 17, 2017
voices. The silence of leaders at this time – in our country- will be a grave disservice to our country, its peace & its future. (3/3)
— Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (@ProfOsinbajo) August 17, 2017
The above comments are part of my opening remarks at the National Economic Council, NEC, Retreat on (cont) https://t.co/maCjWD8Hjx
— Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (@ProfOsinbajo) August 17, 2017
Reactions:
This is priority? How about dealing with root causes?
— CHYCHY CHUKWU (@CHYCHYCHUKWU) August 17, 2017
Nothing is more hateful than keeping Zakzaky &his wife in custody in defiance of several court orders. Prof, "change" starts wt u& ur party
— Jude C. Ndukwe ANIPR (@stjudendukwe) August 17, 2017
Nothing is more hateful than Buhari's "dogs & baboon" statement or his wife's "lion, hyena & jackals" statement. Deal with that first
— Jude C. Ndukwe ANIPR (@stjudendukwe) August 17, 2017
The 97% vs 5% policy of ur @APCNigeria govt is root cause of hate. U ppl ve continued that without apologies. Fix that first
— Jude C. Ndukwe ANIPR (@stjudendukwe) August 17, 2017
Can there be anything more hateful than the minddless murders of defenceless Shiites & IPOB members by state agents? You need d line, not us
— Jude C. Ndukwe ANIPR (@stjudendukwe) August 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/mosbestdemoon19/status/898129680095694848
Sir can you please relate this thread to the Zaria Shiite massacre, the Onitsha IPOB massacre and the Kaduna Igbo quit notice. Thank you. https://t.co/1CJIGRXo6W
— Ebube. (@EbubeIsaac) August 17, 2017
That's a welcome development sir. But do something more to dollar rate. Also get it known to the APC that Nigerians are loosing hope on them
— Bright Iroegbu Emman (@IroegbuBright) August 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/BOIAMANI/status/898125359748657157
https://twitter.com/afalli/status/898153936166821888
this administration came on board through hate speeches, APC fuelled the fire that is burning in Nigeria today through hate speech.
— UAU (@docaustyne) August 17, 2017
We dont even know if we still have a country; we have never ever been so divided and this happened all under the watch of APC.
— UAU (@docaustyne) August 17, 2017
It's time you acted Presidential or just return to your church.
— Plucky Puffin (@ObinnaUkwueze) August 17, 2017
Coordinator-in-chief and Motivational speaker of the Federation. Fire on o. https://t.co/SBa5ufJ34S
— Prof Stanley Nwabia (@MrStanleyNwabia) August 17, 2017
Good development. Please can you also draw the line on epileptic power supply in Nig. today?
— Ganiyat Akin (@ganiyat_akin) August 17, 2017
Nail on the head, darling.
