The world has moved into internet generation that is focused squarely on inventing electronic media devices that make people showcase the stuff they are made of. Pictures of all kinds are posted everyday on YouTube and Facebook.
Information is made available in the internet for public consumption.
In Nigeria, using smartphone is a sort of PhD, a point of growth, a thumbing of nose at living beneath civilised society. And people have conveniently brought the behavioural function of their faith into the internet. It is worth nothing to post someone’s naked picture on line without regard to the consequences.
People’s private dealings and intercourse are made available in the internet. Worse of it all, there are those who resort to posting false and malicious information on line with the intention of making money when people read them.
These people’s resolve is drained away completely and they have reached the lowest rung on the ladder of degeneracy. Posting false and malicious information on line is evidence of moral and spiritual bankruptcy. Such is the belief and practice of those who adhere to Satanism. Satanism teaches that man should abandon morality and give himself over to the lust of the flesh. Accordingly, all experience has shown that Nigerians lack internet habit by every standard. Decay necessitates restoration and restoration is an effort to make an institution better by improving its exciting structure. It is incumbent upon the legislators to take the country through a changing world with legislations that are founded upon solid principles.
Public reactions do not negate this mandate neither does opposition invalidate the objective to accomplish this legal mission. For good laws sometimes have reactions from those who disagree and those who disagree develop reactionary slogans against the laws they reject.
I, therefore, implore the senate to do justice to the social media bill to save the country from digressing into chaos.
Abdulkareem Haruna, Kuje, Abuja.
