Good morning listers.
The tweet below by Ahmednasir has me thinking about data governance in government. Some of these tweets he talks about provide record to some announcements made on government policy and is in response to some officials closing up their accounts.
I guess the question asked is are they opened on a personal level by government actors or are they opened by the office occupied.
What steps went/go into activating and deactivating them?
Someone else responded to it that many people interact with government offices and officials through gmail and yahoo accounts. Reminded me of a conversation we had about that some time ago.
How do we separate an office holder's personal opinions and an official opinion? Logically it is prudent to say once some positions are assumed, virtually all opinions from the holder are seen to be official.
Remember how something like BBI came down to saying the president spear headed it in his personal capacity. But even then he was using channels available to the office to talk and promote it. All in an attempt to legitimise it.
I guess the question is how can these be separated if they can be separated at all?
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Ahmednasir Abdullahi SC (@ahmednasirlaw) tweeted at 7:38 am on Thu, Sept 15, 2022:
Twitter accounts operated by Cabinet Secretaries like Dr Fred Matiang'i are public property and contains information that belongs to the office one holds. Deleting or deactivating such accounts without express authority of goverment is a felony that results in a jail term or fine
(https://twitter.com/ahmednasirlaw/status/1570270811164151813?t=LRRbd64w3iHDXu2cafxutA&s=03)
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./ken