The survey was supported by
MacArthur Foundation to monitor, report and share the reports of monitoring and
countering documented as well as
analyses to the general public through the media every month.
A survey conducted by a
Non-Governmental Organisation, Centre for Information Technology and
Development ( CITAD) said their monitoring team has documented a total of 820 hate speech
across the country.
Senior Program Officer
CITAD Isah Garba made the disclosure at press conference on monitoring and
countering hate and dangerous speech in the country.
The survey categorizes the hate speech as follows, Ethnicity – 480, Religion – 249, Biafra
agitation – 77, Farmers/Herders – 2 and Election Issue – 12 making a total of
820.
The survey showed that out of
820 hate speech reported in the month, 65
of the report were issues that require countering which were
already handled by their countering team.
The survey report indicated that Facebook has occupied
the highest number of hate speech with 79..8% while Newsletters have 30%.
While the language used by
hate speakers for their hate speech cut across English and other native
languages in the country.
“The government should stop keeping blinds eyes
on issues that are clearly security threat to the country but rather come out
with just and pragmatic approaches to address the issues.
“Government should also
improve in its effort of addressing the social economic problems of our youth
to occupy them with more positive engagements that will shun them away from
engaging in conflicts stimuli.
“Religious leaders have the
dual responsibility to sensitize their followers on the importance of peace and
the rationale of multi ethnicity and religion in religious perspective,” the
group pleads.
No comments:
Post a Comment