The Vice President of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has called on religious leaders, who are always active on social media, not to allow the new media to be an instrument of war.
He urged them to use the platform to promote kindness and peace.
Osinbajo made this call during a religious gathering in Abuja the Nation’s capital city.
In his words “I want to say in particular about social media that we absolutely need to be careful with our use of social media.
“If we do not want to promote the kind of conflict that can completely go out of hand, we must be sure that we are policing ourselves and regulating ourselves on social media.
“I don’t think that government regulation is necessarily the way to go, but I believe that we as persons of faith, as leaders and those of us who use social media actively, owe a responsibility to our society and to everyone else to ensure that we don’t allow it to become an instrument of conflict and war”.
