The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, has denied that he “sneaked out of Nigeria’ to meet with Twitter
executives in the U.S.
In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in
Washington on Wednesday, the minister described the report as fake and said his
official visit to the U.S. has nothing to do with the microblogging and social
networking platform.
Mohammed said he was in the U.S. to meet with international
media organisations and think tanks on the achievements of President Muhammadu
Buhari’s administration and efforts made so far in tackling insurgency,
banditry and all forms of criminality.
He said the online report was an example of the danger fake
news and unregulated social media portend for the country.
“Can a minister sneak out of Nigeria without people knowing.
“When you say I sneaked out of Nigeria, are you saying I
went to board at a terminal where nobody is or I travel to Republic of Benin to
fly out of the country.
“I was at an international airport, where I presented myself
openly and I was checked in at the counter like every other travelers of the
airline.
“I boarded and passed through the checks by the Immigration
service and Customs.
“How can you come and say I sneaked out of the country?’’.
The minister who had so far engaged with the BBC Radio and
TV, Bloomberg and Polico during his visit to Washington DC, said he had no
mission with Twitter on his trip.
“You and I have been here, have I met with any twitter
official?
“When you talk about fake news and its danger, we need to
take it seriously and I am happy that the entire world has now seen what we saw
more than two years ago.
“I can assure you that we will not rest until we regulate
the social media, otherwise, nobody will survive it,’’ he said.
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