A rights group, the Intersociety says Nigeria is drifting into a country of dark ages with the lattest indefinite ban on Twitter which needed to rescind.
Mr Emeka Umeagbalasi, Chairman of the group and other principal officers in a statement in Onitsha on Saturday said the country has entered into information dark ages of the Muslim dominated and controlled central governments.
“Nigeria is not only closest to the abyss of doom and ruination but has also become birds of the same feather with Somalia, Afghanistan, Iran, Cuba and North Korea in international isolationism or world’s club of most secretive and closed societies.
“Nigeria has also speedily made the list of worst of the worst category which it shares with the failed and battered states of Somalia and Afghanistan.
“In the category of countries in information dark ages, Nigeria shares same with closed societies of Cuba, Iran and North Korea; but unlike Iran, North Korea and Cuba, rated high in the category of massive armaments and other military weaponry.
According to him, Nigeria is paired with Somalia and Afghanistan as countries at the stages of sociopolitical implosion and explosion and information dark age.
In the immortal words of Julius Nyerere, “it is sad and unfortunate that when the Europeans, North Americans and Asians are busy finding their way into the moon, Africans are busy moving back to the cave”.
“In other words, Nigeria has speedily gone back to the cave including dark era of information and its dissemination,” Umeagbalasi said.
He said that it was saddening and shocking that the country’s leaders have, by their latest act, further retrogressed and internationally darkened Nigeria and the citizenry including children, wives, relatives, friends and stooges of the leaders.
“It is so bad that the country is now pushed back to the cave of information dark age.
“The Taliban era cultural intent of the present Islamist central government of Nigeria is now played out opportunistically using Twitter’s deletion of the country’s presidential genocidal war threat against the mostly Christian regions of the country.
“Truly and circumstantially speaking, Intersociety does not see the Nigeria government’s indefinite ban on Twitter and moves to stifle others as accidental or momentary decision. Rather, it is an intended policy kept in coolers waiting for its maturation time,” Umeagbalasi said.
He said the moves by the Nigerian government are to further cut off the country’s citizens from outside world including denying them right to be heard and document, present and publicize evidence of the planned genocide to the outside world.
“The global democracies including the super powers must therefore not wait for Nigeria to become another Rwanda or Syria before they act including offering of ‘medicine-after-death’ humanitarian assistance.
“Nigerian government must therefore be compelled locally and internationally to rescind such ignoble ban and moves to stifle others,” he said.