Twitter deletes Buhari’s ‘genocidal tweet’
Twitter has deleted President Muhammadu Buhari’s tweet threatening genocide against the people of Igbo-dominated South-East.
The social media giant deleted Mr Buhari’s tweet following enquiries from Peoples Gazette with the context in which the Nigerian leader issued the threat on Tuesday night.
The Nigerian leader may also be locked out of his account for 24 hours or face a temporary suspension for the offensive tweet.
Earlier, Twitter had seen no wrongdoing in its response to some of those who marked the tweet as genocidal and reported it as a violation of its policy.
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Mr Buhari’s tweet boasted about the role he played alongside other Nigerian military officers in the Nigerian Civil War of 1966-70, during which over three million Igbo civilians were killed, many of them rounded up and shot at close range or starved to death.
The president’s tweet followed widespread attacks on public facilities by unknown attackers in the region, but critics said his comments were an escalation of violence and a promotion of genocide rather than an attempt to curb the excesses of criminals rampaging across the South-East.
