Google has deleted Adamu Garba’s application, Crowwe from its play store, People Gazette reports.
The Crowwe app, which has been described as an instant messaging and financial transaction app that comes with a digital wallet that helps to transfer and receive money while chatting, has received worst reviews.
Following the announcement of the Twitter ban by the federal government of Nigeria, the former presidential candidate presented the Crowwe app as an alternative to the microblogging website that can help “to grow Nigeria.”
“Join Crowwe now! Build your country, build your people and build your brand. Join Crowwe now, Mr. Garba had tweeted.
“This is the best opportunity to grow Nigeria, to build Nigeria, Crowwe to the World.”
He had also expressed his excitement in an interview with Channels TV that the federal government has banned the operations of Twitter in the country.
It could be recalled that Mr. Garba had earlier called for a ban of the microblogging platform when it deleted president Buhari’s genocidal tweet.
“Twitter has no right to infuse into our local political affairs. It’s a company, not a government. By removing our democratically elected President’s speech to the people of Nigeria, Twitter needs to shut down from Nigerian internet space. Twitter needs to get out of Nigeria,” he tweeted.
Mr. Garba’s attempt to seize the opportunity of Twitter Ban in Nigeria to advertise his app met stonewall rejection from Nigerians.
Twitter users criticized the application on many grounds including its privacy policy. For instance, critics discovered that Crowwe’s terms and conditions were copied from another app, Spotify.
The app has since received terrible reviews which could be responsible for its disappearance on the play store app.
Another reviewer alleged that the app was being used to recruit members for terrorist organizations.
Google removes applications that are perceived to have violated its policy.
“Once your app is removed, the published version of your app won’t be available on Google Play until a compliant update is submitted,” the app store policy states.
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