Police, DSS Should Invite Nigerians Who Make Insubstantial Claims On Social Media

The Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi, has said the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Nigeria Police should invite Nigerians who make ‘unsubstantiated statements’ on social media to explain reasons for their comments.

The governor made the call while appearing in an interview on Thursday on Channels Television Programme, ‘Sunrise Daily’, noting that it is important to prevent the increased crime and heating up the polity.

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“The level of crimes in the country is as a result of unpatriotic acts of a lot of us. We, leaders, we come out on television and then we speak, indict other regions, we speak against other regions, we pick on the leader of the country and then castigate the leader of the country. There is no patriotism at all.

“The way to prevent this is that if you are making unsubstantiated statements in the social media, the police, the SSS, you should be invited to explain and this is no politics because the country cannot fold our hands and allow people to plunge the country into another war. This is very important,” Umahi said.

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) governor maintained that these unpatriotic comments are capable of inciting division and could eventually plunge the country into a crisis or lead to war.

“I was told that one of the world wars started with a family quarrel and so if you are making a statement on social media calling it freedom of speech, you must come to the law to substantiate it.

“What I have in the (Ebonyi) state, the communal clash now should have stopped but for the politicians who are making unguarded accusations and statements in the social media and then people outside the state will just cash on that and emotions will arise and the problem will continue.”