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Twitter has deleted tweet wherein President Muhammadu Buhari threatened to deal with perceived troublesome Nigerians in the language they understand.
Checks showed that Buhari’s tweet was deleted for allegedly violating its rules.
Tweeting on Tuesday, the President had said:“Many of those misbehaving today are too young to be aware of the destruction and loss of lives that occurred during the Nigerian Civil War.
“Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat them in the language they understand.” Buhari also tweeted the texts of his speech on his personal twitter account, saying, “We are going to be very hard sooner than later.”
The president’s tweet followed continuous attacks on public facilities by unknown attackers, especially on offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and Nigeria Police Force in parts of the country, particularly, in the South East region.
The tweet however sparked off general outrage on Tuesday evening with many social media users describing it as ‘genocidal’ and a direct threat to people of the South-East region of Nigeria, with several users reporting the comments officially to the American microblogging and social networking service, Twitter.
In Twitter Rules and policies, the company explains the process of removing a tweet considered to have violated its rules.
“When we determine that a Tweet violated the Twitter Rules, we require the violator to remove it before they can Tweet again. We send an email notification to the violator identifying the Tweet(s) in violation and which policies have been violated. They will then need to go through the process of removing the violating Tweet or appealing our review if they believe we made an error,” Twitter said./SHARE THIS