 Twitter ban lifted. Should we really be grateful? If I sit back to think about it The events that led to the ban of Twitter. It leaves me wondering who lied to us about being in democracy Where is the freedom of speech that was promised to us? This reminds me of the film Legend of the Seeker where one man called Dawkin Rao controlled everyone within his jurisdiction Can our leaders be humble enough to admit their unguardedness and misguided actions? Can our leaders be humble enough to accept that the highest office in the nation is the office of the citizens? Several businesses had already been hit by the COVID. The Twitter ban came as a corresponding blow The arcs that we contribute to the socioeconomic development Yet they shut us out from one tool of effectiveness that facilitated this development The Twitter ban has been lifted after 223 days or even more. Oh, yeah We should be jumping in jubilation because our fundamental right to speech has now been restored Who knows for how long though? This leaves me asking two critical questions. One What was the essence of the ban? two Why was the ban lifted even at this awkward time? Elections are closed by. Are you seriously thinking what I could already be thinking about? Peter, if you have to say it out loud, what we are thinking, but of course I mean like really Of course that's exactly what I was thinking But to answer your first question, do you know there's something about the laws of power? When you have the power to do something to punish some people, so just show that I can do what I'm going to do You know how they just say so I feel I mean to answer that for the second one obviously Twitter is such a powerful tool and Twitter Advocates like all of you sitting here minus me So there are a lot of PR campaigns, social media campaigns, everything and they already know what else are you going to use How do you want to get it done and then how do you buy good will so now they're going to give you You don't need it you don't need Gary Abbey. You need to treat as your own take it and be happy The Twitter thing for me I look at it from different angles. Let me take it from the most Sassy positive one or negative one so that I can have all your buying Now Twitter ban The way I feel okay I'm just getting I feel now I feel that Twitter itself or social media itself needs to be regulated personally I Feel Twitter needs to be cautioned because they kind of care and caution They bring to bear in other countries. They leave it up in a consulate of African countries in terms of plant I mean, you know I'm muting this and you know what the flag and all that stuff Facebook does it better For Africa than they do so I feel that yes They need it, but we need seven months to prove this. No, do we even need to ban for a week? No, there are other things we could have done to call their attention and definitely not be not immediately after the President speech was pulled out that one is a no-no However, what pisses me off in all this is that and it do stills into what we're talking about having the strength the Resilience being open-minded the same I can bet almost everything I have on it that in a country like China India even America if A platform as big as Twitter were to be banned by now You have had alternative platform created by the indigens of those countries Two things to what wasn't curry created. Yeah curry. No To prove that listen one you cannot stifle us. We have the power. We are the Gen Z like we say We've done answers like nobody has ever done in the history of Nigeria. We are supposed to prove it with that number two It's supposed to be an Opportunity for people to know raking funds that are this space. Let me take by quickly lashing through it If you say curry or whatever was created how much impact has it made how many people? Oh What I'm saying is that Yes, government has done the undoable what should not have been done But as a people and that's what part of things I see will affect affecting us in politics Sorry, I'm bringing it back to politics because this is how we sit down Even where we have power and what things imagine the youth for some group of guys just came out and said They want to come up with something chat Sorosuki and a new a social media platform is born with the same kind of ideology as Twitter Filling up that space. Do you think government will be able to ban it? No. Yes. Yes. No Change and revolutions don't come with professor Everything has the same thread. We're just not ready and we're not strategic and we're not just thinking You know how that immediate comfort Those are that thinking and a smart have taken that that's the hierarchy of needs and they have used it as a tool It gives us and we're there We're not making it It is of the fact that you mentioned that change and revolution does not come with first attempts completely true, but would An alternative platform could say by the Nigerian that says Propose be banned as that's No It's having banned and the people that have been arrested but it's not it's not where the resilience comes in Yes, all that people come up. So the question now is how would how read how ready are we to even keep When affecting change there's there's a consequence power dynamics and if you can't win on that I mean from getting this wall the wall is the reason you can do about it So I think there's no need to keep doing the same thing the same story. Let me keep pushing Let's all say something wonder I'll make it. You might never make it So I don't even one day I will just make it you will never make it if you don't For me on this Twitter ban, I guess the same conversation is Why now obviously it's obvious Would businesses that have suffered the effect of Twitter recover is this an opportunity for them to recover Or do we need to do something better? I think we need to something better to become a better business I'm thinking as a business person right now because yes, it's just it's transcends policy politics It's has to involve with other things in social issues as well. So I Well, I guess maybe the whole Twitter conversation is really linked to business has just shown us one of the rules of life that You can't put all your eggs in one bus. No one would do that We want such a simple comment in primary school But the reality is that and as business we need to also go beyond being pedestrian in how we execute anything Because of your business. Yes, sad it got affected by Twitter ban But it's not all isn't there more I couldn't you have a country if you have to it let to Evolve and be dying diversify and be dynamic. That's a lot to it. I'm not a Nigerian before All right, it's one thing that we have Generated from these conversations is that we need to start re-engineering our thought process Don't just sit down there You need to get up and do something no matter how little we've come to the end of this Episode of the advocate American politician Patrick Moffitt said the political process does not end on election day young people Need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders Accountable for the decisions they make the advocacy continues on our social media platforms and Facebook plus TV Africa Hashtag the advocate Angie and on Instagram at plus TV Africa hashtag the advocate Angie to catch up with previous broadcast Go to plus TV Africa dot-com forward slash the advocate Angie Do not forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel at plus TV Africa You next week same time on this station. Let us keep advocating for a better society