Today, Wednesday, the social networking site Twitter deleted a tweet by Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, and suspended his account for 12 hours.
And Twitter explained in a statement, according to the agency “Reuters”, that the tweet refers to the civil war that took place between 1967 and 1970, due to the secession of the Biafra region in the far southeast of Nigeria, a conflict that claimed a million lives. Twitter considered that the tweet violated its policy on “offensive behavior”, which led to it suspending the account for 12 hours
Those of us who have been in the field for 30 months and fought war will treat them in the language they understand,” the Nigerian president said in his deleted tweet.
Buhari served in the army against separatists and was the country’s military ruler in the 1980s. On Tuesday, he tweeted, saying that many misbehaving people today are too young to remember the death and destruction of the Civil War.
Nigeria’s Information Minister, Lai Muhammad, rejected Twitter’s move, saying that Buhari had every right to express his dissatisfaction with violence from a banned organization