On Tuesday the 17th day of October 2017, Abians woke up to the shocking realization that fraud and forgery had taken a new dimension in Abia state, with the cloning of a fast rising tabloid the Abia Facts Newspaper, the dangerous intentions of some evil persons who is bent on suppressing the truth through every means possible in Abia is becoming very glaring and more daring.

While the first line suspects by anyone who has been following the progress and content of the Abia Facts Newspaper online and on hard copy is the Abia state government and its agents, but our prima facie investigations is pointing accusing fingers at a highly placed Abia lawmaker, who owns a printing press and has a notorious reputation for everything evil.

The Abia facts newspaper both online and print editions has maintained a process of balanced reportage of every side of the story and has been engaged in developmental and responsible journalism not tilting towards any political, clannish, tribal or pecuniary interest while carrying out our duties of sourcing and reporting news for the reading Abia public who has come to identify and rely on the well trained and responsible journalists in our team to dish them accurate and factual information as to the happenings in Abia state.

We have maintained a standard and has shown finesse in our news reporting by ensuring that the public is fed the truth and nothing short of it, we have always reported the side of the government in power, the opposition and the public and that has given us the Godspeed by which our newspaper online and hardcopy has been accepted by the generality of Abians.

One can now imagine our shock at waking up to the realization that someone will go all out to tarnish our hard earned reputation in an attempt at putting us on collision course with reputable Abians by faking our hard copy edition of 23rd Oct. 2017 which was already on sale in the vendors stands across Abia state and using the names of some senior journalists in our team to demean the image of some highly placed and successful Abians, while attacking political parties and the person of the president of the federal republic of Nigeria.

They did not stop at that they also went on to drop loads of the fake publication at different public locations, but the most shocking is the one dropped at the office of the chief press secretary to the governor and I am tempted to ask how did it get there, with all the security personnel attached to the government house?

While we are not accusing the state government and its agents of being in collaboration with the devilish highly placed Abia law maker that runs a printing press in a commercial town in Abia state, we also find it very unbelievable that the Abia state government will maintain such a conspiratorial silence at such a devilish act and has not called on security agencies to conduct a full scale investigation with the aim of fishing out the culprit and bringing such a person to book or even make an open statement in condemnation of the act.

We at Abia facts newspaper cannot be deterred or cowered by the activities of some devilish agents who work for the devil at night and come in the day to pretend to be men of God, but are afraid of the truth that Abia facts newspaper has come to stand for, we maintain our resolve to speak the truth and expose evil where ever it is found in Abia, we have instituted a process of investigation with the DSS and the Police and we have also engaged private investigators and so far our search keeps leading us to a particular direction, as soon as investigations are concluded we will make public our finding and take legal actions against the criminal/s.

We enjoin the public, especially our avid readers to continue to read and enjoy Abia Facts as we are poised to serve you hotter, fresher, factual and truthful news stories as they unfold in Abia and beyond.

Aguoru
Writes from Umuahia