ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed said EndSARS Protesters is the reason why the most popular microblogging site, Twitter, decided to plant its African headquarters in Ghana.
He warned that Nigerians should be patriotic “This will teach a lot of us a lesson that we have no country than Nigeria.” during an interview with newsmen in the federal capital territory.
Why Did Twitter Make Ghana African Headquarters?
The microblogging giant gave the following reasons why decided to make Ghana its African headquarters;
- As a champion for democracy
- A supporter of free speech
- Online freedom
- The Open Internet
- Ghana’s recent appointment to host The Secretariat of the African Continental Free Trade Area
What Lai Mohammed said: “The reasons cited by Twitter for citing the headquarters in Accra, Ghana is that Accra is a champion of democracy and there is rule of law in Accra, among other reasons. This is what you get when you de-market your own country. This will teach a lot of us a lesson that we have no country than Nigeria.”
- “We are not saying that you should not criticise the country but be fair and patriotic.
- When you destroy your own house, where are you going to live? he asked
- “You can imagine the kind of job opportunities that siting that headquarters in Nigeria would have created, the kind of visibility it would have given Nigeria but we destroyed it.
- It is what the insiders say about their country that the outsider will use to judge and condemn the country” he added.
Source: Punch.
