Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Bayelsa State,
Comrade Tare Akono, has apprehended and handed over to the Department of State
Service (DSS) a 36years old man identified as Paul Yempe over his false claim
to be a Correspondent to the Cable News Network (CNN) in the Niger Delta
region.
According to the SSS, the fake CNN
reporter was arrested with an Identification Card of the Rivers State
Broadcasting Corporation known as Radio Rivers and a fake Identification card
of the CNN.
It was gathered that the fake
journalist was arrested in the office of the Commissioner for Energy, Barr.
Akio Francis last Thursday.
The arrest, it was gathered, was
made possible due to the coincidental presence of the NUJ chairman,Tare Akono
at the Commissioner’s Office.
The suspect, according to a security
source, had allegedly swindled some of the state officials
No comments:
Post a Comment