His Eminence Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, the Sultan of Sokoto and President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), has called social media a “terrorist organization” that needs to be addressed immediately in order to protect national security.
Speaking at the Northern Traditional Rulers’ Council’s 17th executive committee meeting in Maiduguri, Borno State, on Tuesday, the Sultan bemoaned the way social media propagates false information and sparks unrest throughout the nation.
“What happened has happened. It can’t come and be through social media. That’s one terrorist organisation…social media.
What they do… somebody will sit in his comfort zone and formulate stories and you will think that it is true. So, social media is a terrorist organisation that we must deal with. Security agencies must deal with this terrorist organisation called social media.”
