Dear Sir,
I write to register my complaint over your company’s failure to identify with Nigerians in times of tragedy, but rather chose to identify with other nations.
Sir, I don’t want to believe your bias was informed by the superiority the races you often identify with.
In any of our recurring tragedies, either when we were bombed in our sanctuaries or social gatherings, Facebook never identified with Nigeria and Kenya
While my heart goes to the French over yesterday night’s terrorist attacks that led to the death of
at least 120 people, I couldn’t but lash at the folly of Facebook for failure to identify with Nigeria and Kenya when an estimated 15,000 Africans were killed by terrorists in round-the-clock attacks in eight years.
I notice a smashing theme you created for your 1 billion users to use in order to identify with a particular people.
You are even more effusive when you pin the banner on our doorstep for easy use.
When Boko Haram terrorists attacked Baga town in January this year, the death toll was estimated at 2,000. This never melted your company’s heart to create an instant theme for your 1 billion consumers to identify with
Nigeria.
Alshaabab killed 149 universty students in Kenya ths summer ..u did nothng to sympathise wth the Kenyans
Let me remind you of a single attack on Kano city ,Nigeria in January 2012, at least 185 lives
perished, and in Bama town in February 2014, at least 120 Nigerians were massacred.
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In one fell swoop in November 2014, Boko Haram bombed 220 Nigerians at a mosque in Kano city, 50 worshippers bombed at Madalla church in 2011, and in February 2014, at least 60 students were slain at a Yobe school.
Your company didn’t identify with us despite our loyalty to your network.
Let me also remind you that at a weekend in January 2014, terrorists’ attacks on eight Borno villages left 150 dead.
Facebook blinked over it – perhaps because we are not the same as the French.
On May 20, 2014, car bombs left a gory sight at Jos bus terminal and a market. 118 people were declared dead. We posted the pictures on Facebook, but you turned your eyes away. You even blockd some users who posted it on grounds of being graphic
Even # BringBackOurGirls movement, agitating for the release of 224 school girls abducted by terrorists, failed to prick the conscience of your company to identify with Nigeria.
We posted every activity, every sit-out and every march on your network, but you blinked over
it.
As a company to gives equal opportunity and discourages racism, I urge you to identify with
not only Nigerians but Africans in their trying times.
My 1st comment has two copies of Flags the Nigerian and the Kenyan for your perusal and consideration
Best regards
Bosslad Ah !
This letter was published by Abie Dhliwayo on her facebook page
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