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Internet Constitutes Great Threat To Nigeria’s Survival; Osinbaj
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By: magbytes120 Date: June 24, 2017, 5:44 am
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Acting President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday described cyberspace as
one of the greatest threats to Nigeria’s existence and
challenged the military to concentrate a serious attention on
this ‘theatre of war.’
Osinbajo who made this submission while delivering a speech at
graduation ceremony of the senior course 39 of the Armed Forces,
Command and Staff College, Jaji, Kaduna, described the
cyberspace as battle ground against Nigeria’s unity, reasoning
that the internet had become the harbour for hate, provocative
and inciting speeches capable of destabilising the nation.
The acting president who further described the cyberspace as
currently designed as a theatre of war in the 21st century,
added that it had become the platform for articulation of
terrorist activities as well as offensive expressions and tasked
the military to see the cyberspace as a conventional battle
field to which it must deploy forces.
Arguing that the cyberspace had equally become the training
school for the production and use of improvised explosive
devices (IEDs), Osinbajo further described it as the avenue for
promotion of secession and quit ultimatum by some
South-easterners and Northerners in recent times.
“Another lesson is that in the 21st century the theatre of war
is increasingly shifting to cyberspace. Terrorist organisations,
purveyors of hate speech, all of these and many more who seek to
destabilise the world are busy staking out territory on the
internet, and scoring significant victories and conquests for
themselves.
“As members of the Armed Forces, with a mandate to protect
Nigeria from all forms of internal and external aggression, you
will increasingly be judged as much on the basis of your success
online as on your successes on the conventional battlefield.
“The internet has altered or disrupted every industry we know
of: politics and elections, business and commerce, governance;
and is changing the very nature of warfare. Websites teaching on
how to make and use IEDs and other explosives are numerous.
“Today a great deal of the threats facing Nigeria are being
nurtured and cultivated in the vast spaces of the internet. The
rumblings of secession, the dangerous quit ultimatums to ethnic
groups, the radio stations and blogs that spew divisive speech
and exploit our fault lines; all of these are now to be found
online.
“This means that the military and its officers and men must
itself devote resources and talent to these new battlefields,
where mindless verdicts on the continued unity and existence of
Nigeria are daily being delivered.
“As you make your way out of the hallowed halls of this
institution, into the ‘field’, as you would describe it, you
have huge roles to play in the way Nigeria turns out in the
years and decades ahead,” he said.
Osinbajo also lamented that ethnicity and religion had become
effective tools for bargaining in Nigeria, pointing out that
“when you hear a person say that my tribe has been marginalised
usually what he is saying is appoint me.”
Observing further that ethnicity and religion have become tools
of defence, Osinbajo added that when people are charged for
looting public funds, they claim that they are being victimised
because of their religion and tribe.
Citing countries such as Italy, India and United States as
countries which share the same diversities with Nigeria, he said
the success stories of their fusion had only shown that Nigeria
did not necessarily need to be a perfect union before it could
be a great country.
Describing the Nigerian elite as Nigeria’s major problem, he was
swift to add that the elite were confronted with the challenge
and wonderful opportunity to build a new nation devoid of
cynicism, division and suspicion.
“A new nation built on trust, consensus, love for one another
and love for our country is possible. A nation where the rulers
do not steal the commonwealth, where every Nigerian is safe to
live and work, where the state takes responsibility for the
security of each and every Nigerian, where the state knows every
Nigerian by name and can find and locate each one of us, a
Nigeria where the Ibo or Ijaw man can live peacefully in Sokoto,
and the Fulani man can live peacefully in the Niger Delta,” he
added.
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