we don't have secular individuals in our country,even if we do ,whatevercomplain the y have concerning the social Media should be objectively looked into

Gerrard59:
Mustybura
If I may ask why compare Nigeria to countries such as Syria and North Korea as examples of regulating Social Media?
You used religion as one of the reasons for regulating Social Media. What do say about non-religious and free thinkers who also use Social media? The constitution is secular, how do merge that? Thanks.

AlmuFty01:


You posted something with full of points to discuss about and now you are saying something else.
What are you talking about. My friend.......... Stop this hunnnn

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we don't have secular individuals in our country,even if we do ,whatevercomplain the y have concerning the social Media should be objectively looked into

we don't have secular individuals in our country, even if we do ,whatever problem they pose concerning the social media will be looked into.

The bill before the house is about regulating our local environment.I only made mention of ISIS,as such criminal organization is linked to BOKO HARAM ,our own version of ISIS.

@kingtom, There exist a tripartite power in every government ,the executive ,the legislator and the judiciary.They are there to check excesses of one another,thus if a government kotow s to it own rhythm, then the court are there to reverse such actions or inactions.

@xener, men and women of proven integrity would be the supposed regulators.Anyway ,if there is still uncensored material,or if it is found that others right are not reflected on the social media, a separate body that looks into such matters should be set up.

well, what I mean is to regulate and not to do away with it totally.contents should be regulated based on age category.

My name is Mustapha bura,a 200level medical student, representing team UNILORIN.I am here to convince you all that it is imperative that the senate regulate the social media for the betterment of both the leaders and the led.

Before I go on to unstrip the myriad octopodal monsters that have waylaid our social media world, I would like all of us to have a lucid meaning of the social media and the different perspectives it encompasses. According to Wikipedia, the social Media are computer -mediated tools that allow people to create,share or exchange information,career interest, ideas, and pictures/videos in virtual communities and networks.Social media depend on mobile and web based technologies to create highly interactive platforms through which individuals and communities, share, co -create, discuss, and modify user generated content.social media technologies take on many different forms including blogs,business networks, enterprise social networks, forums, microblogs,photosharing, products /services review, social bookmarking, social gaming, social net works, videosharing and virtual worlds.


Having unmasked the power of the social media, I would like to draw a contrast to the traditional media so as to better grasp the salient significance why the law before the senate should see the daylight than not. Social media differ from traditional or industrial media in many ways, including equality, reach, frequency, usability, immediacy and permanence. Social media operate on a dialogic transmission system (many sources to many receivers). This is in contrast to traditional media that operate under under a monologic transmission model(one source to many receivers).

The senator Bala Ibn Na'Allah proposition that information posted online should be verified before doing so is line with the regulation of the social media. As a reminder, he proposed the bill to prohibit frivolous petitions and other matters connected therewith. It seeks that any petition without swearing an affidavit that the content is true in a court of law should be considered illegal. The proposal include up to two years in prison, or a fine of $10,000 or both for anyone posting an abusive statement via text message, twitter,WhatsApp or any other form of social media. This will help to foster integrity and discipline into the Nigerian citizens and also help to prevent unwanted maligning of our sincere sacrificial leaders and any other respected citizen. Recently, there is a post that went viral ; that five Judges of the Edo court of appeal were dismissed based on corruption charges, which fortunately or unfortunately turned out to be false. Thus, such (senator Na'Allah's bill)strict regulatory measures will make anyone trying to post an information to think twice and also to verify the authenticity of its sources before they flood it on the social media.

Regulation of the media in many ways will help cleanse ,standardize and face-lift the ethos of interaction among people. One aspect of the social media that needs sanitization is the total control of contents by the user. This freedom has been abused by many users and it led to the Creation of friction and override over other people's right of dignity and honour. Unpassing remarks and open abuse are often made via the social media which had sparked feeling of hatred and low self-esteem. Indeed if you have been active on the social media,you must have observed that freedom of speech and expression has become burdensome as exemplified by how Nigerians use and misuse the platform with carelessness and which has crescendoed to digital anarchy. Consequently, there is a need for regulation, so as to restrict and prevent hate speech and abuse of human dignity.
Secondly, the social media have been hijacked by virtual criminals and defrauders who hide under the mask of the social media to defraud gullible individuals. A typical scenario is that used by individuals who create "false" website to initiate businesses running into millions of naira,only for them to disappear into thin air before the transaction comes to fruition.
In addition, uploading and downloading of videos, audios ,and other files should be regulated so as to prevent the pollution and corruption of gullible and innocent citizens of our dear country. Today,there are thousands of sites dedicated to pornography that remains uncensored. Youths surfing the net often fall prey to such sites that would lure them to watching immoral and sexually pervading videos that will end up building a false sexual orientation, viz, homosexuality, lesbianism and bestiality. More so ,such sites are often not age restricted.
Another misuse of the social media that needs to be checkmated is that of the u-tube. Such avenues have been harnessed by dangerous religious organizations to delude individuals to believing in their ideologies. We have heard of stories where many members of the dreaded ISIS(Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) where brainwashed into their ideas and their subsequent recruitment via the same social media. Thus,u-tubes and other video/audio online access should be monitored and censored within our sovereignty.
If we take a look through another window of the evils of the social media, we will see teenagers being entrapped in the complex triangle of love and it associated problems. We have heard of innocent girls that have gone into online relationships, only to be sexually abused and dumped subsequently. The online chat media have also been used to demonize our youths by creating a means of exchanging ones body (homosexuality) for monetary rewards. With this ,I believe the opponents to the passage of the social media bill would pause to have a reversal of their initial opinion .I bet the chairman and his untiring team of coordinators are already on my side from the outset.

Mr chairman, the coordinating members and fellow observers, I think you will all agree with me that it is high time that everyone should sheath their swords of "no consent" to the social media bill before the senate and instead focus on putting all hands on desk to rid our social media world of all evils and atrocities. viewed from that perspective, it is not difficult to determine why ancient thinkers like Plato had contempt for democracy and described it as a mob rule. Today Plato's sentiment towards democracy perhaps holds true in our context because of the constant confusion and outright abuse which have become characteristic of our democracy, more so with the advent of social media which is taking the world throughout a process of re-democratization with the creation of online public sphere and digital democracy.
Thank you


REFERENCES:
NAIJA.COM,
WIKIPEDIA

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CORRUPTION IS A SOCIETAL EVIL CRIPPLING OUR COUNTRY, NIGERIA, WHO
TAKES THE MOST BLAME? OUR LEADERS OR THE FOLLOWERS.


Distinguished Chairman, distinguished panel of judges, my co-debaters and my esteem audience, all protocols observed. Good day to you all. My name is Mustapha Bura, a 200 medical student at the university of Ilorin.
I write through this medium to convince my august audience that the bulk of the blame for the corrupt evil practices crippling our nation stems primarily from poor followership and not merely the absence of good leadership. I begin with a quote from a mentor of mine, he said and I quote " The volumes of people in Nigeria are ignorant " This is a common trait in almost every fabric of our society, cutting across all age groups. People are generally poorly educated, with little or no understanding of the way systems work in their community and the nation at large. I bet if one goes on a public survey about the right of every citizen in our country, the statistics will return no less than 80% being ignorant of their rights. This is a major loophole the leaders of our country have hijacked, that made them to perpetuate themselves in power cycle without the slightest hesitation that their dreaded and monstrous act of corruption will see the light of the day. The common follower doesn't have the simple understanding of the bureaucracratic
principles that one can make use to ascertain the power of the
proletariat. If one takes a random sampling statistics, one will
realize the response not to be farther than this, that they do not
have the knowledge that a senator representating their constituency
needs to have a platform through which he could keep them abreast of
issues or developmental projects concerning their particular
constituency; that they don't know they can present their collective
problem to him and that the onus rest him to bring such issues or
problem before the national Assembly for consideration and effection.
This has led most of our representatives to see us as a mere pun, to
be used and dumped at will without having any form of contact through
out their political tenure, only to come home during the period of
election fever with minimal and temporal development to their wards.


A second major norm that is prevalent in our different societies is the attitudinal grandeur that the common run of the
society attach to political leaders, albeit the fact they are corrupt criminals who in the real world need to be behind the bars. Every known looter and corrupt leader is being glorified and held in high
esteem in his locality, thus, edifying him and making him unremorseful of his devilish criminal acts. Instead of the followers to call him to order for his or her misconduct, we fawn around them everywhere we see them seeking to get immediate gratifications to make ends meet. Thus, we stay in an undeveloped state, characterized by poor water supply, epileptic power supply, poor roads and inefficient hospitals, no kudos
to our attitude towards the same leaders that brought us to the aforementioned problems.


A third and crucial phenomenon that pervades every political society in our nation is the staunch principle of sycophancy and blind followership. People belonging to a particular tribe, region or religion view the act of blind support to one of their own as a duty
entrenched in their cultures and beliefs. Even though it is a glaring fact that such leaders are inept and unfit to represent the populace, we still rally behind them and identify with them in every course,
right or wrong, for the mere fact that he is "one of our own". A particular case is that of the court proceedings ( which I happened to witness, fortunately or unfortunately) between the EFCC and James Ibori of Delta State which took place in the High Court of Justice,
Kaduna, during the Obasanjo tenure. I saw a mammoth crowd of supporters that traveled all the way from Delta State to the venue of the proceedings to drum support and identify with "One of their own" albeit being charged with mindboggling looting of the Delta State
treasury.


Another facet wherein the common followers have their hands deeply soiled in the sand of corruption is the electioneering process. Instead of canvassing for vote through the legal process of discussing manifestoes based on principles and standard, the to be
leaders buy the conscience and votes of the gullible and hungry citizenry. This, to me, is like an investment in the business of lootery, with huge profit expected to be derived from the coffers of the treasury of the state. And guess what? Who is the loser in the long run? Your guess is as good as mine.


My co-debaters, respected judges and esteemed audience, at this juncture, I would like all of us to take a deep breath and have a thought on the issue of discipline and righteousness in the common populace of your respective societies. I would believe that once you return from that journey of thought, you will agree with me that the various nefarious act of indiscipline and unrighteousness had had a hand in shaping the corrupt evil practices we see in our different society. Well, I also took a deep breath and a thought and
here are some of the pictures I was able to conjure : The act of bribing a judge to pass a judgement in our favour; the act of buying examination question papers before the scheduled time for the exam;
the act of "shunting" in a long queue; the act of inflating prices of commodities by the ordinary sales men and women; the act of giving bribe to policemen etc. All these acts of indiscipline and unrighteousness have shapened our thoughts and attitudes over time and
we now see corruption as a normality instead of an abnormality, thus,
condoning the evil and corrupt practices of our leaders.


My respected Judges, co-debaters and my esteem audience, I need not to scratch further into the debris of crimes and wrongs that the followers have piled over time in order to concur with me that the bogus pendulum of the corrupt evil practices swings much more towards
the followership than the leadership of our country, Nigeria. Nevertheless, before "I take a bow and leave" I would like to outline some corrective measures that could help to tame and bring the act of corruption to its knees. First of all, we all need to have mind reorientation and rebranding of our attitudinal views. We need to stop glorifying and edifying every "formalized" thief, wearing the
deceptive gown of leadership; we need to stop idolizing mediocrity instead of expertise in the name of ethnicity and sectionality; we need to develop ourselves educationally so as to "open" our eyes to the reality and finally, we need to instill the act of discipline and
righteousness into our growing youth population. I think you will agree with me without any iota of doubt that if we translate the aforementioned solutions into moving actions, the evil corruption
crippling our society would be nailed to the coffin.


Thank you.



REFERENCES

1. www.transparencyng.com/contributions/13-akintokunbo-adejumo/2808-the-role-of-the-youths-in-nation-building-in-nigeria.html
2. www.thenationonlineng.net/archive2/tblnews_Detail.php?id=40361
3. Wiktionary.com

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