Southern Kaduna Crisis: El-Rufai Vows To Prosecute False News Mongers

Gov. Nasir El-Rufa’i of Kaduna
State, on Tuesday said those
involved in spreading Fake News
about the incessant the southern
Kaduna crisis would be tracked
down and prosecuted.
The governor told the Senate Ad-hoc Committee
on Southern Kaduna Crisis that the government
would not hedge in prosecuting those involved.
“There is a lot of fake news on the crisis. They
take pictures of the crisis in Rwanda and Boko
Haram and post it as happening in southern
Kaduna. This is done every day because there
are no consequences.
“But there will be, because we are tracking these
people, we are going to frame charges and we
are going to bring these people to Kaduna and
they will face a judge. “If the judge says they
have done nothing wrong, that is fine, but they
will go before a judge.”
He charged the Senate committee “to see the
reality of what is happening in southern Kaduna
as against the fiction.”
The governor also advised the committee not to
believe anyone “based on his credibility or
apparent credibility”, including the statement
credited to the Catholic Church in Kafanchan,
which he described as “totally false.”