Twitter has agreed to open an office in the country, months after it opened its first African office in Ghana.
The Nigerian Government, however, said the suspension was a matter of national security.for the violence that trailed the #EndSARS protests against police brutality in many Nigerian cities last October.
Mohammed alleged that Dorsey raised funds through Bitcoins to sponsor the #EndSARS protest while his platform, Twitter, was used to fuel the crisis. “If you ask people to donate money via bitcoins for EndSARS protesters then you are vicariously liable for whatever is the outcome of the protest,” Mohammed said on on “Politics Nationwide”, a Radio Nigeria call-in show in June.“We have forgotten that EndSARS led to the loss of lives, including 37 policemen, six soldiers, 57 civilians while property worth billions of naira were destroyed.”
Twitter said it was opened to speaking with the Nigerian Government in the wake of the wake of the suspension.“We are very much in touch with Twitter in this matter and I must say they’ve shown a lot of flexibility also as opposed to what is being reported,” Mohammed said, adding that the “the conversation has not been acrimonious at all.”
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