{"id":174970,"date":"2025-08-19T08:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T07:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/abia-to-crackdown-on-fake-news-peddlers"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:50:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:50:48","slug":"abia-to-crackdown-on-fake-news-peddlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/abia-to-crackdown-on-fake-news-peddlers","title":{"rendered":"Abia to crackdown on fake news peddlers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Abia State government has vowed to crack down and prosecute individuals who are spreading falsehood about the State.<\/p>\n<p>The Commissioner for Information, Okey Kanu disclosed this on Monday while briefing journalists on the outcome of this week\u2019s executive council meeting presided over by Governor Alex Otti.<\/p>\n<p>He said that though the state does not apply gestapo style to arrest and dehumanize citizens as was done in the past, it would still not fold its arms and watch some individuals causing disaffection among the citizens with fake news.<\/p>\n<p>He raised the alarm about the trending style of falsehood being disseminated against the Abia State government, but vowed that those behind the publications will no longer be allowed to continue in their actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile this State government will not lend itself to the gestapo style of the past where people were arrested and their fundamental human rights breached, the State government will no longer fold its arms and watch the people with such bad intentions to publish falsehood, outright falsehood against the State government\u201d, Kanu said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the Alex Otti administration was not hiding any information from the reach of Abia people.<\/p>\n<p>The Commissioner, who announced that Friday Kalu Ohuche had been sworn in as the Chief Economic Adviser of Abia State, also said that the State\u2019s economic management team had been inaugurated by Governor Otti.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the inauguration of the Abia economic management team did not abolish the roles of the Abia global economic advisory council, which had the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Mohammad, Arunma Otteh, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Bolaji Balogun as members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Abia State government has vowed to crack down and prosecute individuals who are spreading falsehood about the State. The Commissioner for Information, Okey Kanu disclosed this on Monday while briefing journalists on the outcome of this week\u2019s executive council meeting presided over by Governor Alex Otti. 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