The minister for information in Nigeria, Lai Mohammed, has
said that the rumours being circulated on social media that
President Muhammadu Buhari is dead is false and that the
sources of the false information are being traced and those
who started it will soon be made to face the consequences
of their falsehood.
Alhaji Lai Mohammed yesterday in a statement released in
Abuja said that the general public should disregard the texts
and rumours of the president's death as the president is still
vey healthy in London where he went for a vacation.
”The source/sources of the fabricated messages are
already being investigated and the authors should prepare
to face the consequences of their actions.
”The emerging trend of resorting to destabilisation and
scare-mongering is not unexpected, considering this
government’s clamp-down on the corrupt elements in the
society, the plugging of all financial leaks which has
derailed the gravy train of the looters of public treasury and
the enthronement of probity and transparency in the polity.
”While we will neither stifle press freedom nor abridge the
citizens’ right to express themselves freely, whether through
criticism or protests, the security agencies will neither allow
any resort to violence nor a willful subversion of the state
for whatever reason,” he warned.
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