The year 2015 has been filled with media battle between political opponents, those within the same party who belief in different ideologies and some in totally different parties who at the slightest opportunity attacked each other.

Rumours had it that political parties and politicians were buying bloggers over to their side to write "image redeeming stories about them". This "bloggers" or as i would like to call them foot soldiers" go about spamming websites on behalf of their "slave masters". I doubted this until recent when I got wind this foot soldiers spamming our news platform TheNews.NG, . You probably guessing who they were spamming for? Don't guess too much the truth is they were spamming for Former Minister of Finance Mrs Okonjo Iweala.

What raised the dust?

Earlier this month we published a story about Governor Oshiomole requesting that Mrs Okonjo Iweala be prosecuted for allegedly approving spending of funds from the excess crude account without appropriation by the National Assembly.

How do they operate?

Our Editor noticed that within minutes of publishing stories about Mrs Iweala, her foots soldiers quickly dropped defensive comments attacking anyone who who wrote anything against her and praising all articles in her favour. This occurrence made our inquisitive editor to trace the source of the comments and similar comments on other blog

What is our proof?

We traced the profile of this spammers through Disquss and discovered these same profile names existed on so many websites in Nigeria with the same mission.

I would have love to give you snapshots of the spams here but due to the volume of those spams i can't.

Check out link to the spamming accounts below:

https://disqus.com/by/uzomangozi/

https://disqus.com/by/disqus_5fdW94zFu9/

https://disqus.com/by/disqus_n9uV6FUque/

https://disqus.com/by/disqus_j8CIv82VnE/

What is the essence of this write up?

Let it be clear that TheNews.NG is not out to tarnish the image of any Nigeria be it a politician or not but we frown against every for of political interference in media reporting. we would also like to state that we are lending our voice in the stand against the proposed social media bill.

SOURCE: https://www.thenews.ng/metro/more-news/exposed-okonjo-iweala-foot-soldiers-spamming-blogs-on-her-behalf/

cc: lalasticala

Nobody is clean in this dirty game called politics

EroticAngelina:
Nobody is clean in this dirty game called politics

Yea you can say that again, it's all for their personal interest...

The news.ng? Wtf is that?


People trying to gain popularity by saying gibberish. Only spammers? Scammers nko?

If she like make she hire airborne soldiers,not only foot soldiers,

d long arm of d law will soon clip u down

what a space wasting thread opened by an idle person.


her matter dey pain you sha!

sorry o.


**abi na Oshio moniker be this**

Most guys spilling trash on this article probably read only the headline