PASTOR ADEBOYE SPEAKS ON THE PROPOSED SOCIAL MEDIA REGULATION BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

 

The General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor E.A Adeboye, has spoken against the federal government’s proposed social media regulation.

He stated this on Sunday at the RCCG headquarters’ November thanksgiving service with the theme “Better Days Ahead”, through the Assistant General Overseer (Admin. & Personnel) and member of the governing council, Pastor Johnson Odesola.

He said the attempts to regulate the social media as is the case in China won’t work in Nigeria, because the variables are so different.

Instead, he advised that the government should focus on making sure the news shared on social media is genuine.

“The best the government can do is to ensure that the news being carried through the social media is genuine but to want to replicate what is happening in China here in Nigeria is laughable and would not be possible here”, the G.O. reiterated.

He condemned the proposal and said that it is insensitive and an attempt to gauge the common man.

He said the attempts to regulate the social media as done in China won’t work in Nigeria because the variables are so different.