Group: Mischievous people behind the reports of attacks in Matawalle’s hometown

The Citizens Against Fake Activists (CAFA) has urged Nigerians to be cautious of cyber-bandits, fake news merchants and their accomplices trying to undermine the war against banditry in the north-west.

According to CAFA, these individuals and groups aid and abet instigate the locals against the government because of their personal benefit.

In a statement, Kabiru Dallah, the group’s director of communications, described as false, a report that there was an attack in the hometown of Bello Matawalle, governor of Zamfara.

“We read with utter disappointment the story published by a certain online news platform on August 9, 2020, claiming there was an attack in Governor Bello Matawalle’s hometown in Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State,” the statement read.

“The report claimed that over 20 innocent people lost their lives in the attack. Worse still a TV station called Control TV preferred to claim in its report that over 50 people died.

“Unfortunately, nothing is further from the truth as that has now been established by the state government in a press statement made available to reporters on the 11th of August 2020 by Zailani Bappa, Special Adviser, Public enlightenment, media and communications to the governor. The state government made it clear that there was no such attack.

“Some of them are political merchants and agents of darkness working for their godfathers in highly placed positions. They will deploy all resources at their disposal to ensure they continue to profit from the misery of others. This is why the media space ought to be circumspect in their reporting, in order not to play into the hands of the saboteurs.”