Olumide Babalola, Nigerian counsel to the Cable
News Network (CNN), has called on the Minister
of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, to
tender an apology to the medium for tagging it a
fake news outfit after an investigative report
carried out by the American media house on the
killing of protesters at the Lekki tollgate on
October 20, 2020.
In November 2020, Mohammed said a report by
CNN on the Lekki shooting “did not just fall
short of journalistic standards but reinforces the
disinformation that is going around on the
issue”.
The minister, in the letter written to CNN, said
the international platform left out a video which
could have shown that “armed hoodlums
invaded the Lekki Toll Gate that night, and could
have hit any of the protesters as they shot
sporadically”.
“This is a ploy by the CNN reporter/presenter to
manipulate viewers of its ‘investigative’ report
and force them to draw the reporter’s desired
conclusion,” the minister had written.
In a statement on Tuesday, the CNN counsel
said the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on
Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses
and other matters report had vindicated the
organization’s investigative report, titled, ‘How a
bloody night of bullets and brutality quashed a
young protest movement’.
“Alhaji Lai Mohammed should eschew his pride
and apologize to the CNN if he has any integrity
left,” Babalola said.
He added, “He has consistently claimed that the
CNN’s report of the massacre was false, but the
panel has vindicated the CNN’s position on the
gruesome and wanton killings at the Lekki
Tollgate.
“Without necessarily saying more on this, since
the same minister had earlier called on the CNN
to apologize for fake news, which has now been
quasi-judicially proved to be true, one would
think the honorable thing for Alhaji Mohammed
to do, as an elder statesman and learned
gentleman, is to apologize to the CNN
especially.
“However, as we continue to wait on the
minister and the Federal Government’s next
move, I sympathize with families of all the
victims of the Lekki massacre, while we pray for
the souls of the departed and hope the
government implements the report in full.”
“In the light of the report by the judicial panel,
Mohammed ought to eat the humble pie and
apologize to the CNN."



http://saharareporters.com/2021/11/17/cnn-lawyer-demands-apology-buhari’s-minister-lai-mohammed-over-lagos-endsars-report

Till we hear from prof lie him himself

Lie, the bad guy don misyarn too much. He has forgotten it's not NTA

Different shade of lies

CNN should just not bother themselves, it's obvious this particular Alhaji whose mouth resembles fowl yansh will not apologize.

They should just focus on exposing more evil of this evil Buhari led government for what it is.

This is not the best time for linus

Lie Muhammed is an unrepentant liar he will not apologize

Maxymilliano:
Different shade of lies

His apology is worth nothing naw..

Oxb90:
This is not the best time for linus

He's a shameless man !

APC, Lie Muhammed and their useless govt are shameless liars, why would anyone expect them to apologize