Mr Chukwuka Ofoegbu, a blogger known as Ijele Speaks on Thursday the 8th of July 2021 submitted petitions to the Ministries of Justice and Information urging the Federal Government to ban the social media network company Facebook citing “incessant and discriminatory strikes and shadow banning” by the giant Silicon Valley tech company.
Speaking to our correspondent, he said on countless occasions the big tech company has taken down his posts and sometimes his Facebook pages but what broke the camel’s back this time around was his Facebook page getting two strikes for sharing a newspaper article on a confessional statement by a captured Eastern Security Network/Indigenous People Of Biafra fighter and the video of the said confession. “I Was shocked my page Ijele Speaks TV could be struck twice within an hour on the 4th of July for sharing things that are still up everywhere else on Facebook,” he said.
He also detailed how his reach on Facebook suddenly drops from time to time with followers complaining that they don’t get notified when he goes live on the social media platform even though the notification bell on live videos is turned on, live videos getting held up especially when some hard truths about IPOB, their sponsors or media collaborators are told and sometimes the videos being taken down entirely for the breach of the Community Standard without any real or clear explanation of what was said or done to warrant such punishments. He accused the social media network of “colluding with criminals and terrorists seeking a regime change in Nigeria” because there was no way this could be an honest mistake since the undue punishments tend to tilt to one side of the conversation.
Do you know I can’t even advertise on Facebook right now even though I have broken none of the terms and conditions he queried pointing fingers at some collaborators within Facebook moderators who manipulate the algorithm on the insistence of the backers of the proscribed group as they’ve never hidden the fact that they’re the ones doing it?
Our investigation revealed that already running ads the page Ijele Speaks TV stopped abruptly and the page got struck twice on the 4th of July for sharing a newspaper article and the video of one Benjamin Emeoyiri aka Onye-Army, a commander in the Eastern Security Network, the militant wing of the proscribed secessionist group the Indigenous People Of Biafra (IPOB) who confessed to having participated in the killings of law enforcement agents and attacks on government properties across Imo state on the order of their then fugitive leader Nnamdi Kanu. Onye-Army who calls himself the second in command to Ikonso, the leader of ESN in Imo state who died in a gunfight with security forces last April also confessed that the group killed 10 girls for preparation of charms against police bullets.
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