President Muhammadu Buhari says
his administration will take firm action against hate speech on social media.
Buhari said this in his
Independence Day broadcast to the nation.
Acknowledging the rights of the
people to freedom of expression, the president said the right if individuals
must not be allowed on the rights of others.
“Our attention is increasingly
being focused on cyber-crimes and the abuse of technology through hate speech
and other divisive material being propagated on social media,” he said.
“Whilst we uphold the
Constitutional rights of our people to freedom of expression and association,
where the purported exercise of these rights infringes on the rights of other
citizens or threatens to undermine our National Security, we will take firm and
decisive action.”
The president also promised
Nigerians that the problem of epileptic electricity supply would soon be over,
highlighting the steps that his administration is taking to address the
challenge.
“I remain confident that
Nigerians will have affordable and uninterrupted electricity supply in the not
too distant future,” he said.
“Our efforts to improve the power
sector will complement other infrastructure investments projects under the
Presidential Infrastructure Development Fund, which is investing in the
Mambilla Power Plant project, as well as key economic road infrastructure such
as the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Second Niger Bridge and Abuja-Kano Expressway.
The first set of these projects remain on track to be completed by 2022.”
The president said the executive
had renewed its relationship with the legislature, adding that this would have
a positive effect on his government.
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