Are people not killed daily in Southern Kaduna by Fulani? Was the school not invaded by Fulani? Are the schools in Southern Kaduna not shut down? Whether he posted Rwanda victims or not,the fact is...THERE IS A RELIGIOUS CLEANSING IN SOUTHERN KADUNA SPONSORED BY HELL RUFAI..and whichever way we want to use to create awareness about that,we would do that.

As long as you also prosecute the killing herdsmen, no problem.

Waspy:
ElRufai comes across as a tyrant. It comes in handy for him. But Thanks goodness, he's not a military administrator or a Royal ruler

Is it wrong to prosecute someone who knew he was misinforming the public to discredit the govt?

Those who lost their life as a result of his irresponsible tweets, will his useless apology bring them back?

What he did was capable of causing civil war and he would have been jailed even in any sane society, including US and UK.

Freedom of speech doesn't give anyone the freedom to cause chaos and violence with obvious lies. As a lawyer, he should know better.

.....And what about Elrufai's own threatening statements a few years back on the same twitter? Short little hypocrite.

Good, it will serve as a deterrent to others....just like the idiot who posted a whites man picture while in Kenya who suddenly disappeared, claiming such happened in Shogunle, just to generate useless traffic....smh

MAikori is not the problem, Suleiman is not the problem the problem is fulani herdsmen roaming freely and killing children and innocnets, since El Rufai will not hear rhyme or reason, God will fight for Maikori

NeutralJUDGE:
Are people not killed daily in Southern Kaduna by Fulani? Was the school not invaded by Fulani? Are the schools in Southern Kaduna not shut down? Whether he posted Rwanda victims or not,the fact is...THERE IS A RELIGIOUS CLEANSING IN SOUTHERN KADUNA SPONSORED BY HELL RUFAI..and whichever way we want to use to create awareness about that,we would do that.

Then why the cowardly apology from him?

Better prepare to defend him in court. His apology will even help in nailing him.

OP, is it hellrufai that said persecuted or you?

Go school u no gree, now u dey type sh*t here

Mtchewwwwwww!

am not a fan of el rufai but the chocolate city boss messed up big time especially the fact that he had to publish a public apology.

I however appeal to el rufai and the kaduna govt to temper justice with mercy and let's move forward with a strong warning to others that such will never be tolerated. El rufai too should endeavour to bring lasting peace to his state as a governor.

Hate will kill this country faster than corruption with the way we are going if not checked.

Maikori go on exile, they will destory you here in Nigeria,comeback when they are gone,dead and buried, Tyrants never last

drsugar:
I've seen things like 'F*cK TRUMP' 'F*CK CLINTON' 'Trump Sex tape' 'Hillary is a pedophile' 'Hillary is a child trafficker' and the likes of such with supporting articles online. Even though most of this things might be untrue, I am never heard of anyone of these people trying to look for scapegoats to persecute online.

Says much about our level of thinking and priorities.

Why don't you write an article about how the Pentagon will be bombed tomorrow and see if you will be prosecuted

Someone instigated violence online and you don't see anything wrong with that

NASTYNASOSO:
Audu Maikori will be prosecuted – El-Rufai
By Tonye Bakare | 03 March 2017 | 9:18 am
Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai
Chocolate City co-founder, Audu Maikori, was recently arrested by the police over a series of tweets he sent to his followers, alleging that some students of the Kaduna State College of Education had been killed by Fulani herdsmen in Southern Kaduna.
He is currently out on bail but Kaduna state Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, speaking at the on-going Social Media Week 2017 on Thursday, said the music mogul will face the full brunt of the law for publishing “fake stories and pictures.”
“We are going to prosecute him. He was arrested. His statement has been taken. He is on bail. He is going to be prosecuted. His fate will be decided by a judge,” El-Rufai said.
While insisting that he had no personal grouse against Audu, the governor noted that prosecuting him would serve as a deterrent to people who spread untrue information on social media and would help rein in the scourge of fake news.
He said, “It is not personal. I have nothing against him. In fact, he has worked with the state government in the past. But I’m not going to sit as the governor of Kaduna state and allow anyone to post or tweet anything that leads to loss of lives without consequences.”
Audu, El-Rufai said, was informed about the untrue nature of his posts but still doubled down on them.
“He posted fake pictures of Boko Haram attacks, Rwandan genocide, as Southern Kaduna killings. It is totally irresponsible to do that.
“Even when it was pointed out to him that the information was untrue, he still posted that he stood by his story. He questioned the authenticity of the press statement. He was totally and completely irresponsible.”
The music mogul and lawyer was arrested on February 17, by policemen attached to the inspector-general’s monitoring and intelligence team, over ‘inciting comments’ he made on social media on Southern Kaduna killings.
In a series of tweets on January 23, he alleged that five students of Kaduna State College of Education, Gidan Waya, Kafanchan, were murdered by Fulani herdsmen.
“My driver’s younger brother and five others students of College of Education, Gidan Waya, were ambushed and killed by herdsmen yesterday #SouthernKaduna,” he said in one of the tweets.
But the school’s management denied that any of its students was killed. Kaduna State also condemned the misinformation and vowed to prosecute rumour peddlers.
Maikori later apologised for the wrong information contained in his tweets, claiming that he was misled by his driver, who himself was an indigene of Southern Kaduna. The driver, he said, was handed over to the police after he (Maikori) decided to further investigate the story to “ensure that all the facts of the case and evidence were presented to the authorities.”
“I hereby tender an unreserved and sincere apology to the Management of the College of Education, Gidan Waya, His Excellency the Governor of Kaduna State and the Kaduna State Government, and also to the people of Southern Kaduna and the Fulani community and also VANGUARD newspapers, whose source was my driver, for the false statement by my driver which I also publicized believing same to be true,” Maikori said in a statement on February 5.
He was arrested shortly afterwards.
Southern Kaduna, recently for a couple of months, was a scene of bloody conflicts between suspected Fulani herdsmen and indigenes of the area, with scores of the residents killed. The conflicts forced the state government to impose a 24-hour curfew on Zangon Kataf which was only relaxed on February 4 to “6 pm and 6 am”

http://t.guardian.ng/news/audu-maikori-will-be-prosecuted-el-rufai/

This same governor that abuse GEJ everyday when Goodluck was in power and no one picked him bar him from expressing himself now same thing is happening to him , his getting people arrested . We need someone or anybody to deliver us from this Present Government.

repogirl:
.....And what about Elrufai's own threatening statements a few years back on the same twitter? Short little hypocrite.

dey just gambling

You have so many twitter followers.
Yet u go about posting fake stories n lies.

Maikori is lucky,this is not China or north Korea.

PassingShot:

Is it wrong to prosecute someone who knew he was misinforming the public to discredit the govt?

Those who lost their life as a result of his irresponsible tweets, will his useless apology bring them back?

What he did was capable of causing civil war and he would have been jailed even in any sane society, including US and UK.

Freedom of speech doesn't give anyone the freedom to cause chaos and violence with obvious lies. As a lawyer, he should know better.

There is nothing wrong with his pictures/post.People are killed daily and the government look unperturbed,if the pictures would create awareness on the religious cleansing going on there,THEN ITS OKAY

He is not serious. Looking for scapegoat to vent his wrath on. El-rufai that should have relocated his office to Kafanchan temporarily until the situation is solved is here threatening.

Any man that cannot provide for his household is worse than an infidel. Therefore, a Governor that cannot guarantee the security of certain of his citizens, is worse than an infidel. Federal Government should declare a state of emergency in Kaduna and hand over power to a sole-administrator.

The imam preaching that Buhari was poison so that their followers should prepare for attack of Buhari die are still walking free

NeutralJUDGE:
There is nothing wrong with his pictures/post.People are killed daily and the government look unperturbed,if the pictures would create awareness on the religious cleansing going on there,THEN ITS OKAY

Why did he apologize then?

NeutralJUDGE:

PassingShot: :

Is it wrong to prosecute someone who knew he was misinforming the public to discredit the govt?

Those who lost their life as a result of his irresponsible tweets, will his useless apology bring them back?

What he did was capable of causing civil war and he would have been jailed even in any sane society, including US and UK.

Freedom of speech doesn't give anyone the freedom to cause chaos and violence with obvious lies. As a lawyer, he should know better.

There is nothing wrong with his pictures/post.People are killed daily and the government look unperturbed,if the pictures would create awareness on the religious cleansing going on there,THEN ITS OKAY

@PassingShot,

Can you see reasoning from the cesspit? You better not waste your precious time

danjumakolo:
You have so many twitter followers.
Yet u go about posting fake stories n lies.

Maikori is lucky,this is not China or north Korea.

And China or Korea,,no government would make its citizens that vulnerable due to sentiments

El rufai is unimaginably wicked! Does he know how many of his tweets in the past and present have misled gullible Nigerians? Besides, were the killings in southern Kaduna not perpetrated by the same herdsmen he promised compensation

mapet:


@PassingShot,

Can you see reasoning from the cesspit? You better not waste your precious time

The school was attacked...people were killed whether students or not,whether there is a correlation between the pictures he posted and the people that died,the fact is...LET EL RUFAI TACKLE THE INSECURITY IN SOUTHERN KADUNA FIRST

yedidiah:
He is not serious. Looking for scapegoat to vent his wrath on. El-rufai that should have relocated his office to Kafanchan temporarily until the situation is solved is here threatening.

Any man that cannot provide for his household is worse than an infidel. Therefore, a Governor that cannot guarantee the security of certain of his citizens, is worse than an infidel. Federal Government should declare a state of emergency in Kaduna and hand over power to a sole-administrator.

Quite right,the security of citizens matter alot,if a particular group are vulnerable to attacks,then THERE MUST BE SOCIAL UNREST

As Governor, you're the Father of all your citizens. So just convince the Public that he's lying and forget about it.
Let me take this opportunity to advise our good Governor to control his Kastela men. They have started misbehaving, impeding and exploiting businesses like the disbanded vios.

NeutralJUDGE:
The school was attacked...people were killed whether students or not,whether there is a correlation between the pictures he posted and the people that died,the fact is...LET EL RUFAI TACKLE THE INSECURITY IN SOUTHERN KADUNA FIRST

The school was attacked? Prove it (at the expense of making yourself look more stupid)

I support el rufai as long as its gonna be court of law.
We need to curb the menace of fake news now before it sets the country on fire.

Maikori is a celebrity with much followers anything he says will take weight, to serve as deterent he needs to be prosecuted so as to stop other celebrities from spreading fake news.

In the UK when a celebrity commits an offence his punishment is like tripple that of others people because he is a role model that others may follow, this are the burden of being a clebrity. Just a apology by Maikori is not enough

NeutralJUDGE:
Are people not killed daily in Southern Kaduna by Fulani? Was the school not invaded by Fulani? Are the schools in Southern Kaduna not shut down? Whether he posted Rwanda victims or not,the fact is...THERE IS A RELIGIOUS CLEANSING IN SOUTHERN KADUNA SPONSORED BY HELL RUFAI..and whichever way we want to use to create awareness about that,we would do that.

Why not go ahead and post more pictures of Liberian war as southern Kaduna crisis?
Go ahead I double dare you! nitwit!

Wiseandtrue:
Mtcheeeeeeew this Elrufai with his archaic ways.
What happen to freedom of speech.
Agreed Audu posted a wrong information why not use the same means to refute or counter his claims
Then summon him and tell him his mistakes.
Publish it to create deterrent for others who might want to tow that line
Power shall

Just listen to urself.... This ur comment makes no sense.

What about those that believed the stories and had gone ahead to commit havoc in the name of reterliation?

What about those of you that would rather believe the poster of wrong info and refute that of the government?

He stood by his stories, he should stand by his trials.... Simple!

See this one talking about persecution.. I no blame you na. After all you talk and go away free without trial

This el-rufai guy is more of a loser and lunatics than imagine.