Mark calls for check on menace of social media
On July 26, 2012 · In News
9:36 pm

By ANAYO OKOLI

UMUAHIA—SENATE President, Senator David Mark, Thursday, called for a check on the menace of the social media on the Nigerian society, saying that people now use them to demean their leaders.

Mark said the need to check the social media became necessary, as they do not have the avenue for retraction of whatever they had done.

Senator Mark, who spoke in Umuahia, Abia State, while declaring open a two-day retreat for Senate Press corps, explained that the media has come to stay, as part of the process of governance in the country, since the return of democratic government in 1999 and performing its social responsibility of checking the excesses of the leaders.

Senator Mark, however, urged reporters to always cross check their facts before writing so as not to mislead the people, who depend on them to know what goes on around them.

The Senate President cited as examples varied figures usually quoted by various media in times of tragedies, saying that the figures were always inconsistent.

Describing the media as one of the stabilizing factors in the scheme of things, Mark cautioned that “we need to change our attitude on how we report things about our country, and we should emulate the foreign reporters, who never report negative things about their countries.”

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LocalChamp: Mark calls for check on menace of social media

UMUAHIA—SENATE President, Senator David Mark, Thursday, called for a check on the menace of the social media on the Nigerian society, saying that people now use them to demean their leaders.

Mark said the need to check the social media became necessary, as they do not have the avenue for retraction of whatever they had done.

kingoflag:

You bloody Imbe*cile, shut the Fu*ck up! What Secret Services will haunt him for life? You must think the United States Law Enforcement Agents are like your Undertrained, underfed illiterate bulldogs that haunt ppl for speaking their minds.

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Beaf: Sadly, there is a lot of truth in what David Mark is saying.
Presenting robust opposition is a completely different thing from sedition, lies, false rumours, slander and other forms of lawlessness.

Right here on NL, we even have mods like OAM4J who take their unethical and irresponsible behaviour to common sense defying levels that can only be described as stup!d. In my opinion, a couple of people need to learn a legal lesson or two.

Ask the foolish London teenager (Luke Angel) that called Obama a pr*ck in an email after one too many beers. All the way in the UK, the police popped round, took his picture and explained to him that he was banned from the US for LIFE. At 17!
You can imagine that secret services will be on his tail for life and he now has no future.



US security services regularly haul in people who make demeaning or threatening statements on the web for questioning (or more). The Nigerian constitution is tailored after the US one, so why not do the same thing?

Lets just be civil and truthful.

Beaf:

You always talk like a fool, because thats what you are (or maybe you simply lack upbringing or weren't loved as a kid).
Why not threaten Obama on the internet and see how far?

It is the policy of the US secret services to keep threat investigations secret. So you might simply disappear one quiet day.
http://www.justice.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_room/usam/title9/65mcrm.htm

Fool.

Beaf:

You always talk like a fool, because thats what you are (or maybe you simply lack upbringing or weren't loved as a kid).
Why not threaten Obama on the internet and see how far?

It is the policy of the US secret services to keep threat investigations secret. So you might simply disappear one quiet day.
http://www.justice.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_room/usam/title9/65mcrm.htm

Fool.