It sounds so awkward to me being that the freedom of
Information Act was passed not so long, and now President Goodluck Jonathan is
paying $40 million to an Israeli company to spy on you and I while conversing
on the internet.
Can you imagine that as you are on facebook chatting
with friends and perhaps discussing the political situation in our country, or sending emails,
that the President can actually see that conversation too?
What do we make out of this? You will be reading the
report from Premuim times soon and after that what? Are we going to fold our
hands and watch as he invades our privacy as per communication and do nothing?
I know that most Nigerians are used to folding their
hands and letting things go wrong without raising a finger of objection.
Yes I know, you might be saying to yourself that no
matter what you do, it’s not going to change anything, but have you tried to be
sure that it will not work?
We are in the era of social networks and many
countries have used it to alter their fate especially in changing their
political situation. Why can’t you and I try?
You can start bringing the change by passing this
information on to your friends and let’s see how many people can become
conscious of this act and by the time we bombard him with questions and
objections on his facebook account, he will know that we are not willing to go
down without a fight.
Do you know how many people read this blog on daily
basis? Well I am not about to divulge that yet, but I have to tell you that I have
over a thousand reading my blog daily even with my blog being a little over 2
months old.
So I am
asking you to be that change, let us use these means of communication to change
the things that are going wrong in our society.
My hope is that after reading the post below, you
will act now or forever remain silent.