A Nigerian businessman and politician, Adamu Garba II, has berated CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey for lending his voice to the ongoing EndSARS protests across the nation.
Dorsey, who visited Nigeria last year, took to the social media platform to urge people to donate towards the protests.
He tweeted, “Donate via Bitcoin to help #EndSARS.”
The billionaire techpreneur also retweeted a tweet from the Feminist Coalition, informing people of the modes by which contributions could be made.
See tweet:
Donate via #Bitcoin to help #EndSARS 🇳🇬 https://t.co/kf305SFXze
— jack (@jack) October 14, 2020
Jack Dorsey equally quoted a post by TechCabal which detailed the horrors Nigerian techies have gone through in the hands of the now-defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).
Quoting the tweet, he wrote, “#EndSARS” and added the Nigerian flag.
Replying to the quoted tweet, Garba, who is the CEO of IPI Group, accused the Twitter CEO of interfering in Nigerian politics.
He claimed that the protests have been hijacked since the Nigerian authorities have already acceded to the requests of the protesters, which should have brought an end to the nationwide protests.
Garba threatened to sue Jack Dorsey should the continued protests claim more Nigerian lives.
He wrote,Dear @jack, It’ll do you a lot more good if you stay away from Nigerian Politics. You should know that the so-called #EndSARS protest have transformed into political agitation, capable of breaking law & order in our country. You should not be a moral & financial sponsor to this.
“This is Nigeria, most of the demands initially presented was attended to by the responsible authorities. SARS no longer exist in this country.
“Your support for a disbanded entity was a needless interference. We cannot allow killings again in Nigeria in the name of protests.
“I understand that this may play well to your business, you have more content, more people & more activity on your platform, but to us is about life, peace & security of our dear Country, we cannot allow you to be part of the people sponsoring disorder. We need peace & prosperity.
“I can see you are even sharing a link for people to donate money for this protest, an event capable of escalation beyond our already overstretched security management. If this protest continued to evolved into disorder (hopefully not). As a Nigerian citizen, we’ll meet in court
“Thank you. @jack”
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However, many Nigerians that reacted to Garba’s comments castigated him.
Popular actress, Kate Henshaw wrote, “I am embarrassed on “its” behalf” and added laughing emojis.
Another tweep, Oyindamola wrote, “Jack don’t mind him o”.
Oji Ugo wrote, “@Jack please suspend this account. He is one of the problems of this country.”