{"id":32603,"date":"2020-11-19T17:31:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T17:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=32603"},"modified":"2020-11-19T17:31:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T17:31:40","slug":"end-sars-nigerian-govt-threatens-to-sanction-cnn-over-report-on-lekki-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/end-sars-nigerian-govt-threatens-to-sanction-cnn-over-report-on-lekki-shootings","title":{"rendered":"End SARS: Nigerian govt threatens to sanction CNN over report on Lekki shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Federal Government has threatened to sanction a foreign media outlet, CNN, over its report on the alleged shooting of End SARS protesters by soldiers at the Lekki toll plaza on October 20, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, who made this known at a press conference in Abuja on Thursday described the report by the foreign news medium as \u201cirresponsible journalism\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He described the event of October 20, 2020 as a \u201cmassacre without bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed also insisted that not a single body has been produced or a single family has come out to claim their family member was killed at the Lekki toll gate.<\/p>\n<p>The minister also alleged that CNN relied on social media video without verification to produce its report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike everyone else, I watched the CNN report. I must tell you that it reinforces the disinformation that is going round, and it is blatantly irresponsible and a poor piece of journalistic work by a reputable international news organization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCNN engaged in incredible sensationalism and did a great disservice to itself and to journalism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the first instance, CNN, which touted its report as an exclusive investigative report, sadly relied on the same videos that have been circulating on social media, without verification.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is very serious and CNN should be sanctioned for that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCNN merely said the videos were \u201dobtained by CNN\u201d, without saying wherefrom and whether or not it authenticated them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWere CNN reporters and cameramen at the Lekki Toll Gate that evening? If the answer is no, on what basis were they reporting?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf CNN had done its investigation properly, it would have known how fake news and disinformation were trending during the End SARS crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe BBC even did a report on this, and we recommend that report to CNN. Talking about the BBC, a reporter with the BBC\u2019s Pidgin Service, Damilola Banjo, was at Lekki Toll Gate protest ground that night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dShe was quoted as saying soldiers were indeed at the Toll Gate but they shot \u2018\u2019sporadically into the air\u2019\u2019 and not at the protesters. CNN that was not at the scene reported otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn its jaundiced reporting, CNN was blind to the fact that six soldiers and 37 policemen were killed in unprovoked attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, CNN did not consider the security agents human enough,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Federal Government has threatened to sanction a foreign media outlet, CNN, over its report on the alleged shooting of End SARS protesters by soldiers at the Lekki toll plaza on October 20, 2020. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, who made this known at a press conference in Abuja [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":32602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,1378,1552,1617,254],"class_list":["post-32603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-cnn","tag-end-sars","tag-lekki-shootings","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>End SARS: Nigerian govt threatens to sanction CNN over report on Lekki shootings - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/end-sars-nigerian-govt-threatens-to-sanction-cnn-over-report-on-lekki-shootings\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"End SARS: Nigerian govt threatens to sanction CNN over report on Lekki shootings\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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