Google Reportedly Removes Ex-Presidential Candidate, Adamu Garba’s App ‘Crowwe’ From Play Store
Crowwe, a social media application owned by former Presidential aspirant, Adamu Garba, has suddenly disappeared from Google play store.
Garba has been actively promoting the application via his social media platforms especially Twitter.
The app 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.
However, recently Crowwe app has been receiving bad reviews since he began to actively promote it following the announcement of Twitter ban by Federal Government of Nigeria.
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The former presidential candidate presented the Crowwe app as an alternative to the microblogging website that can help “to grow Nigeria.”
It could be recalled that Garba had earlier called for a ban of the microblogging platform when it deleted president Buhari’s genocidal tweet.
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He tweeted;
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 need to shut down from Nigerian internet space. Twitter need to get out of Nigeria.
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 need to shutdown from Nigerian internet space.
Twitter need to get out of Nigeria.
— Adamu Garba II (@adamugarba) June 3, 2021
He also expressed his excitement in an interview with Channels TV that the federal government has banned the operations of Twitter in the country.
Amid widespread criticism of Federal Government’s action, Garba attempted to seize the opportunity of Twitter ban in Nigeria to advertise his app but it was met by rejection from many Nigerians who accused him of being an opportunist.
Twitter users criticised the application on many grounds including its privacy policy. Multiple users via on social media revealed that Crowwe’s Terms and Conditions were copied from another app, Spotify.
According to PeoplesGazette, the discovery was also verified by Dubawa, a fact-checking platform, to be true.
A Twitter user stated;
Check the Crowwe app’s terms and conditions. It’s the SAME thing as Spotify. They didn’t even bother editing. Like if you click on the hyperlink it redirects you to Spotify theft. What sort of pangolo app is that?
Check the crowwe app’s terms and conditions. It’s the SAME thing as Spotify. They didn’t even bother editing. Like If you click on the hyperlink it redirects you to Spotify. Isn’t that intellectual property theft 💀
What sort of pangolo app is that?.— ego beke. (@rubylaren) June 4, 2021
The app has since received terrible reviews which may be responsible for its disappearance on the play store app.
However, Garba in an interview with Peoples Gazette said the company was working on updating the application that is why it was deleted on play store.
Checks by the publication on Google Play Console help, however, revealed one does not necessarily have to remove an application before updating it.
It explained;
Once your update is available, users can download the update on your app’s store listing page or from their My apps page on the Play Store app. If a user has turned on automatic updates for your app, the update will be downloaded and installed automatically.
Google removes applications that are perceived to have violated its policy as the app store’s policy states;
Once your app is removed, the published version of your app won’t be available on Google Play until a compliant update is submitted. Until a policy violation has been fixed, don’t republish a removed app.
Mr. Garba underestimated the power of social media. Now who is laughing?