terry, it's easy to cherry pick and decide you want to highlight the negative stuff even when there is no evidence and you don't, you cannot use, you know, reports that i turned out. bye bye bye bye bye. the you know, the united nation make? no this is our thing in your country, they said in the incident witnesses sometimes. 6 that c, c t, v. cameras and lights were switched off shortly before soldiers opened fire on peaceful protesters. the un says this indicates a disturbing level of premeditation. your government has apparently set a panels of inquiry to look into. there's to look into other incidence by you know, a group of your security forces which rights group say routinely practice torture. i just like to ask you, you know, how, how can the public trust that they will, that you will really get to the bottom of what happened when it seems as if you

don't want to really look at it, the nigerian, the nigeria, public, the overwhelming majority of an idea and public trusts that the government, the nigerian government will get to the bottom of it as it always does. but sadly, due to lobby, due to fake ends, yours due to fake websites due to the equity was created on social media where knee jerk reactions follow such incidents. the the substantial segment or section of the western media and such as countries get the wrong mr. mr. and they allow this, subsist on it, mr. acid or i think we can both agree though, that there were protesters who were there and what they were there for was to protest against police brutality, especially from the elite unit called sars,

which writes, i think would be really broad store, just watch or ill treatment extrajudicial killings. let me ask you, why were there no charges brought against members of this unit? earlier? these abuses are well documented itself was disbanded, the unit itself was be disbanded, but the evidence of torture. conrade, they were not for you. you can't cherry pick what to highlight, sorry, excuse me. you can't fix what to highlight when it comes to the area. you are not in danger, or perhaps you are not aware that when this very same unit size was created in response to an armed robberies in lagos, in the ninety's, that this course of action was celebrated. so now it's our lives, it's use and when there were protests and complaints and petitions,

president how much henry did find it. he brought it to an end. he did it, but then he created a unit swat in the same breath to replace it. so the question is, if you haven't addressed, if you haven't brought charges in the past, who can really trust that this new unit will be any different? and as you know, that there's that there's a question that a lot of people in your country in fact are asking because there's still judicial panels of inquiry that are taking place looking into these allegations of abuse. we're not saying we have a perfect police force just as is the case in most countries or in every country, i should say, you would have bad eggs that would do things that are not sanctioned by the government, but it does not. it does not mean that the only course of action is to highlight the negative, and mr. ambassador would, may already be nigeria, nigeria operates

a democratic, still on government. like i said. so what about some offers over the rule of law we uphold. so let's talk about democracy in the earlier this month. the government band, twitter. can you explain that move? i can explain it because the simple explanation is that niger, as i said, operates a democratic system of government. we've had 6 successive elections every 4 years in a since 999. 1 of the, the, the important the most one of the most important norms of, of democracy is freedom of speech which nigeria of holt's, which nigeria celebrates which idea protects. but you cannot use, you cannot allow that certain elements to use those democratic, mister ambassador, i want to ask why? so it or what the down wasn't it because the platform took down president to

harvest tweets for violating its abuse for me, their policy. and no that's, that's not the reason. the reason why it was shut down. it was because twitter has been airing, pictures, videos, and the vituperation of, of people that i look into. and robert nigeria, which, while and many people are looking at the situation and they are, is tweet what's the burning later twitter? what band is this, the proportionate response, and now we have the attorney general ordering the immediate prosecution of offenders of the federal government ban on twitter. so it's twitter users. now that your government is going to prize, i said your own citizens. that as i said earlier, as i said earlier, sadly, regret regret to be this cherry picking approach creates the wrong narrative. you go back to 2019 you will see that further mama has been consistent about

the adverse effect of social media. when it chooses not to be responsible, their real life, the real world. but the question is whether banding proportionate robots, mover and bad scenario? and right now, 90 is the rank one, china and i just north korea. iran on issuing a ban on twitter, g. do you feel comfortable in that company? can i just make the point i was trying to make if you go back to 219 president mama to address the word the united nations general assembly. he spoke about the christ church attacks and the, the negative effect of live streaming of such violent acts and, and encouraging terrorist groups and, and violent groups to,

to have that space within social media which spreads others on into acts of violence. this is no less different than that. so what has been consistent when it comes to that? but you are, you are forgetting what he, what you said in 2019. and just looking at his reaction was social media as a week after a very prominent politician was killed in south eastern nigeria. a few days after the i called a few days after i pub had bunce, electro commissions offices in the same region. mr. ambassador, the only people reaction please. let's look at the international reaction because canada, the e u, the u. k, the u. s. they have all condemned this twitter band, i mean the, the u. s. as it has no place in a democracy. don't you need foreign investments to help build your economy? we need for an investment. we also need for those countries to be mindful of the

fact that i prob and such groups have been engaging lobby firms like mike, you re, public affairs, for instance, that it's paying $85000.00 a day to churn out, such negative stuff to, to go and a full court press on us senators and, and prominent people, prominent politicians so that they would create this negative narrative about nigeria and which is far from the truth. and those were on ground know that. and the, for instance, the british high commissioner in nigeria is aware of that because now she's on the receiving end. she's being threatened by the same i pulled by now you can the lead of april. and mr. ambassador, i'd like to ask you because i mean what, what is clear is that the economic situation in the country is not good. unemployment has more than quadrupled sense to hurry, took office,

more than half of young people can't find jobs and that's, that's more than half of your population. that is under the age of $24.00. and furthermore, nearly half of adults say that they plan to move to another country within the next 5 years. half of adults want to leave the country within the next 5 years. with whom do you plan on building the future of your country. with nigerians, as we've always done, we have an economic downturn just like other countries in the world. it's important to remember that we're living through a global pandemic. nigeria, unfortunately has dependent depended overwhelmingly on foreign exchange coming from crude oil sales. this current government is looking to diversify nigerian risk, the last general and economics with figures like this, do you risk a last generation?

no, we don't. which is why we're, we're, we've put our heads down and we're diversifying nigeria economy. if you look at the plans that we have in place, the national economic plans that we have in place that a diversifying look at what is happening. look at the rice revolution going on in niger, i look at the foot, eliza blending that is going on in nigeria. look, as i said earlier, social investment program, look at the 2nd major bridge, look at the rail projects, look at the gas pipeline projects. look at what he meant is doing with regard to electricity. these are the things that you should look you'd be looking at. look at also the media and entertainment sector. nigeria is one of the fastest growing when it comes to that. these are the sort of things you should be concentrating on, inflammation and digital technology ambassador to that we have to leave it there. thank you so much for joining us on conflicts on. been

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