Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi has made clarifications on a viral video making the rounds on social media, wherein he was presumed to have ordered some of his security aides to flog civil servants at the government’s house.
The governor who described the controversial video as doctored and manipulated, however, disclosed that the incident was an aborted attempt by miscreants to block the Airport gate in the guise that they were enforcing a sit-at-home order.
Umahi made the rebuttal on Tuesday night in a statement signed by the state’s Commissioner for Information and State Orientation, Orji Uchenna Orji made available to newsmen and.
The statement reads, ” Our attention has been drawn to a doctored footage purporting to be Civil Servants rolling on the ground and being flogged by security personnel in the presence of the Governor of Ebonyi State while on inspection at the Government House gate, Abakaliki as reported …shared widely in different social media platforms and accepted line hook and sinker by the gullible.
“We wish to inform members of the public that the purported footage is a video manipulation of an aborted attempt by miscreants to block the Airport gate and inflict fear on those working at the on going International Airport and possibly embarrass the Governor who was on a routine inspection visit to the Airport project, in guise that they were enforcing sit-at home- order at the premises of the Airport on Tuesday, 4th September,2022.
“It would be recalled that miscreants had in the past tried to attack those working at the Airport site and their plots were neutralized
“Contrary to the fake report that the incident happened \ at the gate of the Government House in Abakaliki while the Governor was on supervision, the miscreants were dispelled at the gate of the new Airport under construction. It is to be noted that no Civil Servants or employees whatsoever have been recruited to work in the Airport and so no Civil Servant was flogged at the Airport gate, contrary to impression in the trending report. We are therefore surprised at the basis of the unintelligent fabrications of the mischief makers.
“There is no amount of blackmail that can distract the performing Governor of Ebonyi State, His Excellency Engr Chief David Nweze Umahi FNSE FNATE who had visited the Airport to carry out his routine inspection of projects as regular inspection of projects is one the reasons why we pride with quality assurance in our policy of monitoring and evaluation in Government businesses.
“Members of the public are therefore enjoined to discountenance the manipulated trending video as the handiwork of enemies of progress.”
Abeg what dialect of Igbo were those guys in that video speaking, I use to hear that Ebonyi Igbo is the hardest, omo na true o pim I no hear, even my prophetic senses cannot grab it sef.
Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi has made clarifications on a viral video making the rounds on social media, wherein he was presumed to have ordered some of his security aides to flog civil servants at the government’s house.
The governor who described the controversial video as doctored and manipulated, however, disclosed that the incident was an aborted attempt by miscreants to block the Airport gate in the guise that they were enforcing a sit-at-home order.
Umahi made the rebuttal on Tuesday night in a statement signed by the state’s Commissioner for Information and State Orientation, Orji Uchenna Orji made available to newsmen and.
The statement reads, ” Our attention has been drawn to a doctored footage purporting to be Civil Servants rolling on the ground and being flogged by security personnel in the presence of the Governor of Ebonyi State while on inspection at the Government House gate, Abakaliki as reported …shared widely in different social media platforms and accepted line hook and sinker by the gullible.
“We wish to inform members of the public that the purported footage is a video manipulation of an aborted attempt by miscreants to block the Airport gate and inflict fear on those working at the on going International Airport and possibly embarrass the Governor who was on a routine inspection visit to the Airport project, in guise that they were enforcing sit-at home- order at the premises of the Airport on Tuesday, 4th September,2022.
“It would be recalled that miscreants had in the past tried to attack those working at the Airport site and their plots were neutralized
“Contrary to the fake report that the incident happened \ at the gate of the Government House in Abakaliki while the Governor was on supervision, the miscreants were dispelled at the gate of the new Airport under construction. It is to be noted that no Civil Servants or employees whatsoever have been recruited to work in the Airport and so no Civil Servant was flogged at the Airport gate, contrary to impression in the trending report. We are therefore surprised at the basis of the unintelligent fabrications of the mischief makers.
“There is no amount of blackmail that can distract the performing Governor of Ebonyi State, His Excellency Engr Chief David Nweze Umahi FNSE FNATE who had visited the Airport to carry out his routine inspection of projects as regular inspection of projects is one the reasons why we pride with quality assurance in our policy of monitoring and evaluation in Government businesses.
“Members of the public are therefore enjoined to discountenance the manipulated trending video as the handiwork of enemies of progress.”
When i heard in the video that it was Government House Gate. I didn't even bother to know it was all fake. Because that is the Airport Gate. So every other thing said in that video doesn't matter to me. Pple can use just a lil cue to know if things are fake or not.
You see how these people behave sometimes... You wonder whether they have conscience at all. They tell lies, manipulate facts, rewrite history and are usually ethnocentric in their approach to everything.
They are too ethnic conscious to be taken seriously. They don't bother about credibility... And you are alarmed why Obi lies with his stupid statistics.
The man in the video was making spurious claims like it was real facts... And some sit@home urchins still believe these lies. Party of mad people.
dynicks: bro honestly, you comments coupled with this very picture, makes me laugh all the times...
U really are a shrapnel in the butt-holes of zombies and urchins!!
I thought I was the only one that laughs so hard anytime i see his comment and the meme he attaches to his comments. The meme matches with his comments.
Interesting History. Like if you learn from it, Share if not.
Obafemi Awolowo and Ahmadu Bello shared the same ideas over Nigeria in the period leading to Independence:
1. They both wanted completely AUTONOMOUS REGIONS of NORTH FOR NORTHERNERS, WEST FOR WESTERN AND EAST FOR EASTERNERS.
Nnamdi Azikiwe accused them of TRIBALISM. He wanted ONE NIGERIA where EASTERNERS can be EVERYWHERE TO DOMINATE.
2. They both requested for SECESSION CLAUSE IN THE CONSTITUTION so that any region which didn't feel good with the union can easily pull out. Nnamdi Azikiwe ran to the UK to tell the Colonial Masters that Awolowo and Bello were Anarchists. He insisted there shouldnt be such a clause and that NIGERIA MUST BE ONE INDIVISIBLE COUNTRY.
3. The two great men preferred for themselves to be in the headquarters of their region. Ahmadu Bello sat in KADUNA developing his Region and People. doing a a lot of landmark achievemens. Very few Northerner had any desire to leave the Northern Region
Obafemi Awolowo sat in IBADAN developing his Region and People, doing a a lot of landmark achievements.
Very few Westerners had any desire to leave the Western Region
Nnamdi Azikiwe refused to sit in ENUGU.
He was running between LAGOS AND IBADAN teaching the Yoruba Leaders how to be Great Nationalists and Detrablized Nigerians.
He abandoned his Region and People, did nothing useful in that place He brought them to Lagos.
At the end, his IGBO PEOPLE took over the NCNC formed by the YORUBA PEOPLE of Lagos.
He used that NCNC to fill and occupy the civil service of Municipal Councils.of Lagos and Ibadan with his Igbo People.
Used the influence of that NCNC to secure the Vice-Chacellorship of UI and UNILAG for his Igbo Kinsmen.
Used the influence of that NCNC to take over half of Tafawa Balewa's where his Igbo Kinsmen filled the entire cabinet.
4. Ahmadu Bello and Awolowo weren't too anxious for the 1st October 1960 date for independence.
They felt they weren't ready. They didn't even have men in the Armed Forces. Nnamdi Azikiwe was in tearing hurry for the Independence to come even before 1960.
Aguiyi-Ironsi, his Igbo Kinsmen was the Commander of the Army. More than half of the Commissioned.Officers of the Army were Igbos. The Federal civil service was filled with Igbos. The civil service of Northern Nigeria had an overwhelming Igbo presence before Ahmadu Bello's vision trimmed it down.
The Western Region civil service had plenty igbos. Igbos were everywhere.
But you couldn't find NON-IGBOS IN THE CIVIL SERVICE OF EASTERN NIGERIA. That was Azikiwe's PERFECT NIGERIA He wanted Independence in a hurry so the Igbos could finally dominate. At the end, IGBO SOLDIERS stormed on 15th Jan 1966 to execute a mutinous coup in which the Leaders.of North, West and Mid-West were taken out but not a single Igbo Leader taken. That is their idea of nationalism.
5. This same people are back. The new AZIKIWE is PETER OBI He can't go to his village because of INSECURITY but he will teach you how to be secured in Lagos In his ANAMBRA you couldn't find an ABIA MAN in their civil service but he will come to OGUN where there are many IGBO LEVEL 16 OFFICERS to teach us the concept of "One Nigeria"
He can't even dare marry a NON-CATHOLIC CHRISTIAN let alone tolerate a Muslim in his household but he is in Tinubu's house dragging his trousers over Muslim-Muslim.ticket.
Whereas Bola Tinubu is an Alhaji who is peacefully married to a Pastor wife for many years.
6. They have wrapped.up a DULLARD OF NO INTEGRITY and tell you that he is your saviour. The man who hasn't saved the people of Agulu his village.
7..And you are a man, especially a Youthful man of Yoruba extraction, because your father didn't teach you history and you will rather spend your time on Music, Sex, Alcohol and Drugs, you are available to be bamboozled, cajoled, deceived or otherwise blackmailed into their EVIL AGENDA which is essentially a ZIONIST PLAN TO OVER RUN THE SW.
Whereas the youths of Igbo land had fathers and mothers who had fed them with LIES AND HATRED FROM THEIR PRENATAL STAGES IN THE WOMB. Those are the people you deal with. You don't know anything, you will soon know because they are not smart people. They will betray themselves.
After wacthing the video i don't need to even hear from the Governor before knowing that those guys that was floged does not look like civil servant as claimed.