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Fake News Is Now A Punishable Offence In Ebonyi – Says Gov Umahi
Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, mentioned has mentioned selling and spreading faux information has develop into a punishable offence below the state cybercrime regulation, presently in pressure.
Umahi, who spoke Wednesday, mentioned the period of individuals dishing out faux information in any type to the members of the general public was over.
He added that anybody discovered culpable would face the regulation.
The Governor was reacting to the arrest and detention of a former presenter in Ebonyi State Broadcasting Corporation (EBBC), Godffery Chikwere, by the police.
Chikwere, who can be a former Technical Assistant to Governor Umahi, was arrested by the police following a petition towards him by the state government over a put up on his social mediahandle, which the government mentioned was in contravention of the brand new state cybercrime.
Umahi mentioned Chikwere would face the wrath if the regulation.
“I didn’t arrest Child mouth, I didn’t arrest him. It’s important to notice now that we now have a regulation on faux information.
Each my journalists and aides ought to observe that faux information coming from anyone is answerable and there’s nothing improper about this improvement. The Federal Authorities has its personal, cybercrime regulation; and till we deploy this, our society will proceed to go dangerous.
“You don’t simply get up and start to tarnish individuals’s picture. The younger man is from Enugu and so they carried the flag off of military actions in Enugu State (referring to Operation Golden Daybreak, Enduring Peace and Nonetheless Water) and he didn’t comment on it. However when it was flagged off in Ebonyi, he now began to incite Ebonyi individuals towards the military in order that the Military will now have confrontation with our individuals.
“It was finished in Anambra, it was finished in Enugu. Why is that, it was finished in Ebonyi and anyone from Enugu State who was employed to destroy the state will begin commenting? Folks have been begging for his launch however it isn’t in my palms, he should go to court docket. They will name me any title, I don’t care,” he mentioned.
