Information reaching Inside Sources revealed that the Headquarters of the Nigerian Defense has dissociated itself from the Twitter account which claimed that the Military will begin the arrest social media users who made any anti government posts.
The Defense Headquarters in a release made public on Thursday denied the ownership of the twitter handles @DefenseMonitor claiming to be the official Twitter monitoring account of the Nigerian Armed Forces and Nigeria Military.
The spokesman for the defense Headquarters Maj.Gen. John Enenche disclose in the statement that the Defense Headquarters wishes to call the attention of the general public of the emergence of a fake twitter handle @DefenseMonitor. Stating that the twitter handle is mischievously using the Defense logo and posting tweets as though they are emanating from the Defense Headquarters.
Maj. Enenche further said “the tweets have started attracting reactions from unsuspecting members of the public. The DHQ hereby call on patriotic citizens of our nation to disregard the twitter account and ignore the tweets, while effort is underway to track the perpetrator of this heinous act.
Enenche in the statement said “the official twitter handle of the Defense Headquarters is @DefenceInfoNG which is a verified account. People are advised to be conscious of increase in the number of fraudsters who will go at any length to misrepresent the military and its Institutions, sometimes using such channel to swindle innocent members of the public. Please be guided”.
