Count me out of any social media regulation bill – Governor Makinde [VIDEO]

Governor Seyi Makinde has made a clarification on report of South-West leaders supporting the regulation of social media.

He stated that contrary to media reports, their position remained that since there’s already an extensive Cybercrime Act, there’s no need for any other bills to regulate social media.

Governor Makinde added that should anyone sponsor a bill to regulate social media, he should be categorically counted out.

He tweeted;

I also clarified the misrepresentation of the position of the Southwest leaders on the so-called social media bill. Contrary to media reports, our position remains that since we already have an extensive Cybercrime Act, 2015 we don’t need any other bills to regulate social media.

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Governor Seyi Makinde has made a clarification on report of South-West leaders supporting the regulation of social media.  He stated that contrary to media reports, their position remained that since there's already an extensive Cybercrime Act, there's no need for any other bills to regulate social media.  Governor Makinde added that should anyone sponsor a bill to regulate social media, he should be categorically counted out.

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Makinde did his national service (NYSC) with Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) of Nigeria, where he was later engaged as a pupil engineer. He served in different capacities; handling and partaking in several key projects between 1990 and 1992. From 1992 to 1997, he worked as a field Engineer (Eket operations) for Rebold International Limited and in 1995, he was appointed as Field Manager in the same company.

In 1997, Makinde established his first business, Makon Engineering and Technical Services Limited (METS), after working for five years (1992-1997) with various international oil and gas companies (IOCs), as the Engineering Manager. He is now the Group Managing Director of Makon Group of Companies.[4][5]

Makinde is a member of national and international professional bodies notably: Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Council for Regulations of Engineering in Nigeria(COREN), Oil and Gas Design Engineers of Nigeria (OGDEN), International Society of Automation (ISA), Institute of Measurement and Control UK; and American Measurement Institute (AMI).