The management of Daar
Communications Plc, has denied any link with a fake Facebook page which rumoured
the death of President Muhammadu Buhari, reports ITRealms.
According to the Daar
Communication in a press statement made available to ITRealms, said the attention
of the management has been drawn to a Facebook page purportedly being operated
by the organization.
Consequently, a report
was published on the said Facebook that the incumbent President of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari, who is
currently on vacation in London has passed on, describing it as false.
The management,
therefore, stated that “It is falsehood dressed up as truth that we opened such
Facebook account; We did not publish nor know anything about the report; None
of our Correspondents in London filed such report.”
The Editorial Policy of Daar
Communication, the management said, is that Correspondents are mandated to file
all their reports for vetting and approval before publication which could only
originate from the headquarters.
“No Correspondent could
individually on his or her own decision publish or cause to be published any
story,” part of the press statement read.
DaarComm went on to
state that the Facebook page is the
brain child of a faceless and mischievous group whose despicable activities
must be investigated by security agencies because of the unpleasant
consequences.
“We wish to state that
AIT runs an official on-line site for News which is not available for use by
outsiders,” the management insisted.
Therefore, they
dissociated Daar Communications plc, completely from
anything contained in the said report which is a figment of the imagination of
the authors, and have officially reported the incident to Facebook Managers.
Nonye Dom/GEE
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