Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos state, says the
federal government could have handled its disagreement with Twitter better.
On Friday, the federal government announced the “indefinite”
suspension of Twitter owing to “the persistent use of the platform for
activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence”.
The development led to the blocking of access to the
micro-blogging platform by MTN, Globacom, Airtel, 9mobile, and other networks.
Reacting to the suspension of the platform, Sanwo-Olu, in a
chat with Arise TV on Monday, said considering the economic implications of the
decision, the federal government could have handled the situation better.
He then asked that both parties work out rules of engagement
going forward.
“Federal government can handle this a lot better. Because of
the number of eCommerce, the number of youths doing digital stuff on the
internet, and we cannot throw that away and say it’s not happening. I believe
there could be a lot of restraint and better management from both sides,” the
governor said.
“On both sides, there are issues that can be resolved
between Twitter and the government and I think what they’ve done is not a ban
but a suspension like they said, so in the period of suspension let us sit
down.
“If we have 40
million users of that micro-blogger and another country has five million and
they chose to take their investment to a country that have five million compared to a country with
40 million. It speaks to the reason we need to have that conversation with
them. Probably if they have an office here things would have been done a lot
quicker and better.”
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