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Mrquote:
Am not, this a system that we want the cause to be successful. Remember the government just want the protest to stop they never said they will do anything so they just wanted us to go back and live our life like nothing happened. What the objective of impose a curfew. If not to manage the protest instead of to solve the problem of the people for once. If we keep managing things i this country without addressing it we might wake up one day and the whole system will just collapse and we will have ourselves to blame.

so The Best Way For The Youths To Solve Our problem Is By Protesting.


Una Never Ready For Change

The only thing that CANNOT change is the truth, lai and his crew will soon be exposed.

Lai ended with "avoid setting the country on fire".

Without CNN, is zoo not burning already?

CNN has more credibility than Federal Government of Nigeria.

This is getting interesting. What is the essence of this letter. Do they think CNN has time for frivolities ? Let FG come out with their scientific evidence that the army was not at the toll gate, or that they didn't use life bullets or whatever evidence and not by writing 20 page useless letter.
What a joke?


Federal government should not start what it can not finish because they asked for it. How can Lie lie Mohammed be talking this trash.
By the time USA , Britain and Europe start to deal with Nigeria with santions by that time they will realise how foolish they are.
How can you be pushing lies to the international community when the whole truth is in full glare to the whole world.
For how long are they going to continue with lies and Propaganda ? For how long ? Nigeria is a shame. Shame on all these politicians.
That is why Nigeria can not make progress with this kind of leaders. I regret ever supporting this government .
Why are these politicians finding it difficult to smell the coffee and realise that the world is a global village and they can no longer get away with crimes committed .
FG is going to regret this because CNN is not TVC. If the FG believes he has the mussle to face CNN . Then let the game begin. You can not hide the truth for ever.
We shall see who will laugh last.

He is trying to Bleep with Yankee- ok ooo! continue. go ask Venezuela

edoairways:
The minister of Information or the presidency should retract that statement before it get out of hand. Don't let that media open cankerworms before it is too late

It's a clear indication that this last straw hit the camel's back. It has been 5 years of steady decline, one anti people policy after the other. Pushing Nigerians to the brink of hopelessness and despair.

But now, they are rattled. Light is being focused on them.
And evildoers, like bugs and cockroaches, prefer darkness.

(Its probably the reason why they disabled the CCTV cameras).

Lai said CNN didn't present at the scene ,how come they know what they know.
I want to know if lai too were at the scene too to have known that there's no shooting as claimed by him.
Mumu .

IamPlato:
They Are Really Taking This Serious Sha.


This Same CNN wey Americans hate, trump Even Banned Them From White House Press Conference because They Go Out And Twist Every Thing He Says


Na This Same CNN nigerians Won Worship.


CNN is Not Your Friend.



MODIFIED
As For The unripe Monkeys Quotin Me i Never Said The Nigerian Government Is Your Friend. Kindly Use Your Common Sense Abeg.


And Stop Disturbin the International Community With Your Problem, white Men Are Not Gods Over Us, dont Make Yourselves Slaves Like the Black Fore Fathers.

Stand Up And Fight To Own Your Country.

Stop This Rubbish Lekki rant and Plan To Win The Next Election but If You Cant then Shut The Fvck up


To avoid unnecessary arguement Click and read this book...

It has the solution to winning the next election

https://okadabooks.com/book/about/the_plight_the_plot_and_the_glory/38382

. Go and read the book yourself ...Face the reality and stop Chasing Shadows ....Reality is ,The Army lied they never went to Lekki Toll Gate ,Now they admitted with Armunition ... Face that .... Enemy of Truth ,Enemy of Nigeria .

helinues:
Nigeria is a nation, CNN is just a media group...

Nation ko national ni
Mtcheew

IamPlato:
ode.

Did You Not See a Protester who Posted Pictures Of blank Bullet Shells and Another Protester Asked Him To Take It Down saying It Was Blank Bullets.

The Idiot Say He Should Take It Down Because It will Aid The military Claim That They Shot Blank Bullets.


Clearly Many Of You Know What Really Happened There But are Hiding The Truth you Are Only Picking The Parts That Victimizes or Favours You.

fid people die at the protest ground as a result of military's presence or not?

Before CNN aired the video, all the attempts to gag them (in terms of inducements) were foiled, hence this irrational outcry #EndSars #EndLai

I do not know what we are arguing about and the question that should be asked is 'WHAT WERE SOLDIERS DOING AT LEKKI TOLL GATE? why were they sent to a peaceful protest ground when we had clusters of hoodlums attacking EndSARS protesters even in the FCT?

Why was the lights and CCTV turned off? If they had no intention to kill? why go there in the first place or turn off the lights and shoot blanks as they claimed?
WHY

rastaLivity:
CNN are not obligated to reach out to the federal government to tell the story, lai is just exposing his low IQ.

But if it was a case involving you, you would want them to reach out to you to give your own standpoint and clear your name.
There are 3 sides to every story. News houses are charged with at least 2 sides: your side and the other persons side. That is how to make it fair and balanced. Otherwise nobody will listen to or believe news. It is their duty to reach out to every party involved to hear from them, before some people will say the news was spinned to suit the reporters agenda, and reduce credibility. Even in the Syrian crises, both the protesters/refugees and government are reached out to. They even reach out to terrorists point of view! That is balanced reportage. Imagine a judge who does not want to hear the defendant, would you call that fair hearing? Let conclusions be drawn after listening to both sides and evidence from both sides presented.

You must be really blind. Mumu.

LegendHero:
Nope, he is not disgracing himself but rather asking CNN to substantiate their claim and why they have disputing claims.

He is letting the Western world know that we won’t stand like we always do and swallow everything they say without validation.

That CNN investigation is too watery and contradictory. Even their sources seems somehow and the evidence they used is the usual video that was already circulating on social media and they fumbled by decreasing the victim to 1 from the over 30+ they claimed earlier.

As a patriotic Nigerian that wants the truth, it will be good for us to wait for CNN reply so all doubts can be cleared.

I hope they reply soon so the truth can be unraveled.

IamPlato:
They Are Really Taking This Serious Sha.


This Same CNN wey Americans hate, trump Even Banned Them From White House Press Conference because They Go Out And Twist Every Thing He Says


Na This Same CNN nigerians Won Worship.


CNN is Not Your Friend.



MODIFIED
As For The unripe Monkeys Quotin Me i Never Said The Nigerian Government Is Your Friend. Kindly Use Your Common Sense Abeg.


And Stop Disturbin the International Community With Your Problem, white Men Are Not Gods Over Us, dont Make Yourselves Slaves Like the Black Fore Fathers.

Stand Up And Fight To Own Your Country.

Stop This Rubbish Lekki rant and Plan To Win The Next Election but If You Cant then Shut The Fvck up


To avoid unnecessary arguement Click and read this book...

It has the solution to winning the next election

https://okadabooks.com/book/about/the_plight_the_plot_and_the_glory/38382

army spoke person.... Dem kill people or not simple question

IamPlato:
They Are Really Taking This Serious Sha.


This Same CNN wey Americans hate, trump Even Banned Them From White House Press Conference because They Go Out And Twist Every Thing He Says


Na This Same CNN nigerians Won Worship.


CNN is Not Your Friend.



MODIFIED
As For The unripe Monkeys Quotin Me i Never Said The Nigerian Government Is Your Friend. Kindly Use Your Common Sense Abeg.


And Stop Disturbin the International Community With Your Problem, white Men Are Not Gods Over Us, dont Make Yourselves Slaves Like the Black Fore Fathers.

Stand Up And Fight To Own Your Country.

Stop This Rubbish Lekki rant and Plan To Win The Next Election but If You Cant then Shut The Fvck up


To avoid unnecessary arguement Click and read this book...

It has the solution to winning the next election

https://okadabooks.com/book/about/the_plight_the_plot_and_the_glory/38382

SENSE KPO FAA :-),

Respect55:
That means u want to sleep till eternity.

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Afonja2:
They admitted they went to the protest ground with live bullet not to use it on the protesters but to defend themselves

If you know how security agents work, you will agree that no soldier will go on such an assignment without being properly armed in case of any unexpected episode.

May be you should try and get the meaning of protest and “simple one at that” as the Nigerian army also admitted, try know the meaning of civil matters too and try more to know the job of an army.
So they will never go for such deadly assignment without life bullets to protect themselves from dangerous and deadly flags right? One thing that is still drawing Nigeria back is the mentality of the majority, when they are not affected by something directly, they don’t care about it and don’t want it to disturb them with it. May God help our lives.

If it was our local media they would have said "NBC fined station BB #5M"

The guy na really big mumu sometimes i wonder if God really fix brain in some people's Cranium cuz judging from the way they comment you'd be surprised

sweet16s:
So Nigeria army that denies been there or shooting are your friends. How much is this government paying you. Mumu

IamPlato:
If after reporting to CNN and Nigeria doesn't become better then you guys are fools

No one reported. CNN is only doing its job. We no send them!
And your inept leaders are trying so hard to discredit it, the way Nigerian Army discredits truth.

The outcome on this one, would be a win-win against the Vagabonds in Power. Sorry pal!

all of Una dey craze for her... you guys feel you are untouchable Abi, you guys might be facing ICC, useless country with hopeless leaders!!

Sunnyja:
Mtcheew! I thought he wrote all the sanctions he promised to impose on CNN. Mad people every where.

Abi o na beg e come Dey beg.

People will believe CNN over Nigeria.

Lai Mohammed go Dey lie like primary school child.

If there was no social media na so dem go cover am up.

thebosstrevor1:
So when reporting news, you have to be one sided and bias.

How do you think?

All the news you have been hearing about Boko Haram from the army, have you ever asked of their own side of the story?

thebosstrevor1:
So when reporting news, you have to be one sided and bias.

How do you think?

Shut up fool. You don't have the right to ask anybody how they think because you're obviously stupid and sick in the head for defending this blood sucking government.
All of you will suffer. Lai Mohammed, buhari, buratai, lagos governor with you idiots they pay to say rubbish online, all of you!

Mr Lai will soon run out of Lies to Lie

Bunch of unserious elements that ordered shooting at peaceful youth protesters which took their lives... And still have the courage to stand to defend the wicked act. God is so so so patient.

BRATISLAVA:
But if it was a case involving you, you would want them to reach out to you to give your own standpoint and clear your name.
There are 3 sides to every story. News houses are charged with at least 2 sides: your side and the other persons side. That is how to make it fair and balanced. Otherwise nobody will listen to or believe news. It is their duty to reach out to every party involved to hear from them, before some people will say the news was spinned to suit the reporters agenda, and reduce credibility. Even in the Syrian crises, both the protesters/refugees and government are reached out to. They even reach out to terrorists point of view! That is balanced reportage. Imagine a judge who does not want to hear the defendant, would you call that fair hearing? Let conclusions be drawn after listening to both sides and evidence from both sides presented.

it’s so obvious you didn’t watch the CNN video, cos they said they reached out to the Nigeria army and Lagos state government to comment on their findings but they refused to comment, so you expect them not to release the video or what?

I still maintain, cnn are not obligated to reach out to the federal government, they have no story to tell in this event. Lai Mohammad is just making a mockery of this shithole threatening CNN with sanctions, even trump hasn’t sanction cnn after consistently attacking him every seconds of the day.

Kwanza:
Read the full letter by the Nigerian government below:

23 Nov. 2020

Mr. Jonathan Hawkins

VP, Communications

CNN Centre

Atlanta, Georgia

U.S,

RE: HOW A BLOODY NIGHT OF BULLETS QUASHED A YOUNG PROTEST MOVEMENT

Our attention has been drawn to an ‘investigation’ by CNN, entitled ‘How a Bloody Night of Bullets Quashed a Young Protest Movement’ and aired on 18 Nov. 2020, in which the international news organization said it had ”uncovered that Nigerian security forces opened fire on unarmed protesters” at the Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos, Nigeria, during the #EndSARS protest.

We write to put on record that the report did not just fall short of journalistic standards, it reinforces the disinformation that is going around on the issue, it is blatantly irresponsible and it is a poor piece of journalistic work by a reputable international news organization.

In the first instance, the report did not live up to the most basic of the core principles of journalism – balance and fairness. According to the website www.ethics.journalists.org, ”balance and fairness are classic buzzwords of journalism ethics: In objective journalism, stories must be balanced in the sense of attempting to present all sides of a story. Fairness means that a journalist should strive for accuracy and truth in reporting, and not slant a story so a reader draws the reporter’s desired conclusion.”

Rushing to air such a momentous story without presenting the government’s side is inexcusable and indefensible. CNN said it contacted over 100 protesters and family members, but did not speak to one official of Nigeria’s federal government. While CNN said there was no response from the army and that officials of Lagos State would not speak in view of the Judicial Panel that is investigating the matter, it did not say what effort it made to speak with any official of the federal government.

The truth is that CNN did not even attempt to reach the federal government. Nima Elbagir, who presented the report and most probably led the investigation, is conversant with the Minister of Information and Culture, who is also the Spokesman for the Federal Government of Nigeria, yet did not say that she even tried to reach the Minister. It is therefore strange, to say the least, that she would rush to air such an important ‘investigation’ report without getting the government’s side. In other words, Nima, and by extension CNN, breached the most basic of the core principles of journalism – balance and fairness.

Another serious breach by CNN, in its ‘investigation’, is that the network relied heavily on unverified footages it harvested from social media.

CNN was not present at the Lekki Toll Gate on the night of the incident. Neither its reporter nor cameraman was there, but it relied on eyewitnesses. Well, this is fraught with danger. While experts say eyewitness testimony is a potent form of evidence, it is also subject to unconscious memory distortions and biases, Unlike CNN, a reporter from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Pidgin Service, Damilola Banjo, was at the Lekki Toll Gate on the night in question, and was quoted as saying soldiers shot sporadically into the air and not at the protesters – a direct contradiction of the position taken by CNN who relied on second and third-hand information.

In airing its ‘investigative’ report, CNN conveniently forgot that on Oct. 23rd 2020, it emphatically tweeted, from its verified twitter handle, that the military killed 38 people when it opened fire on

peaceful protesters on Tuesday, Oct. 20th 2020. Almost a month later, the same CNN – after a supposedly exhaustive investigation – is now reporting only one death from what the world was made to believe was a massacre. Is CNN not embarrassed by this sharp climbdown? Has CNN owned up to this and apologized for its faux paz?

It is also interesting that while CNN obtained footage showing when the vehicles carrying soldiers left their barracks and arrived at the Lekki Toll Gate, it could not obtain any footage showing the bodies of those supposedly killed in the ‘massacre’. After all, forensic ballistic experts will most likely testify that firing military grade weapons into a crowd will not leave anyone needing a microscope to look for blood or bodies at the scene.

CNN has said it stands by its story, and that ”our reporting was carefully and meticulously researched”, This is baffling, considering that the story lacks fairness and balance, as we have pointed out, and that the organization relied heavily on manipulated social media videos. This resort to an escapist cliche seems more like a face-saving measure by an otherwise respectable news network caught in the blinding glare of ‘fake news and disinformation’ headlamps. Or how else does one explain the arrogant defence of an international news network that would not even respect the most basic principle of journalism?

One of CNN’s star eyewitnesses in its ‘investigative’ reporting is DJ Switch. Unknown to CNN, DJ Switch’s story on the Lekki Toll Gate shooting has changed several times. From claiming she counted 78 bodies of protesters who were supposedly killed by soldiers on the night of the Lekki Toll Gate incident, she has twice, at least, changed the casualty figure from 78 to 15 and then to 7, without a shred of evidence. CNN cannot pretend not to know that for anyone to act as a witness, his or her credibility must be unimpeachable. DJ Switch’s credibility does not meet that threshold.


In one of social media videos of DJ Switch that was used by CNN (see attached link 1), the lady (DJ Switch) claimed she and some unnamed persons carried dead bodies and dropped them at the feet of the soldiers. She also claimed she spoke to their Commander before the soldiers threw the bodies into the vans. Curiously, for someone who was streaming live on Instagram during the Lekki Toll Gate incident, there was not a single video or picture of the dead bodies. Not even Godson (Uyi), another CNN star witness whose video was also used by the network, or any of the hundreds of protesters, all armed with smart phones, at the scene recorded a video or shot a picture of dead bodies being carried away by soldiers.

Talking of Godson, despite claiming to have analyzed hours of footage, it is curious that CNN conveniently left out key parts of Godson’s 57-minute, 5-second video (see attached link 2). For example, 13 minutes, 40 seconds into the video, there were voices, in street lingo, in the background telling Godson that the gunshots were not from the soldiers (na boys dey shoot, that na local gun sound….it’s boys, meaning touts and hoodlums, who are shooting.

That’s local gun). Some 20 minutes,14 seconds into the video, Godson confirmed that the boys had brought out their guns and were shooting (local okah, he called it). Some 23 minutes, 14 seconds into the video, Godson said ‘wait, all these boys dey shoot’ (meaning gunshots rang out from the touts/hoodlums). CNN, in its rush to nail soldiers and tell a ‘radically different story’, conveniently left out these parts of the Godson 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 clearly a ploy by the CNN reporter/presenter to manipulate viewers of its ‘investigative’ report and force them to draw the reporter’s desired conclusion! Another video showing an armed protester at the Lekki Toll Gate (see attached link 3) was apparently not among the footage reviewed by CNN!

It is shocking that all through its ‘investigation’, CNN did not for once mention the fact that six soldiers and 37 policemen were killed during the #EndSARS crisis, which also left 196 policemen injured, not to talk of the monumental destruction of government and private properties across the country. Instead, the network is fixated on the massacre that never happened. Are security agents not human beings too? Are they not entitled to the protection of their human rights?

For the record, this is not the first time that CNN has carried an inaccurate or hoax story about Nigeria. In February 2007, Nigeria accused CNN of staging one of its reports from the country’s Niger Delta region, showing gunmen holding 24 Filipinos hostage. Of course, CNN and its then Africa Correspondent Jeff Koinange flatly denied the charge, saying the network did not pay for any part of the report. Later, in an email reportedly sent to a friend, Mr. Koinange was quoted as saying: “Of course we had to pay certain people to get the story… You do not get such a story without bribing.” So much for denials!

As a form of remediation, Nigeria’s Federal Government demands an immediate and exhaustive investigation from CNN into its ‘investigative’ report on the Lekki Toll Gate incident to determine, among others, its authenticity, whether or not it met the basic standards of journalism and also the selective use of unverified social media videos to manipulate public opinion. While it is up to CNN to accede or not, please note that the Federal Government reserves the right to take any action within its laws to prevent CNN from aggravating the #EndSARS crisis with unprofessional, irresponsible, one-sided, inciting and sensational reporting that is capable of pitching Nigerians against themselves and setting the country on fire.

Lai Mohammed

Hon. Minister

All this silly, stupid and long talk na for what na
So this lying machine cannot just place an indefinite ban on CNN again
Una no go know wetin hit una, no be CNN?

A people that hate truth will suffer for their own actions. To protest against injustice is a virtue. To tell lies so as to win the argument is a vice.

thebosstrevor1:
So when reporting news, you have to be one sided and bias.

How do you think?

I think it’s marvelous

The same way Buhari and his goons have been one sided, by refusing court orders, freezing protesters accounts without fair hearing, prescribing opposing groups as terrorize while caught boko haram members are release etc etc etc.

gnss:
. Go and read the book yourself ...Face the reality and stop Chasing Shadows ....Reality is ,The Army lied they never went to Lekki Toll Gate ,Now they admitted with Armunition ... Face that .... Enemy of Truth ,Enemy of Nigeria .

i Should Go And Read My Own Book... See Foolish Thing Wey Adult De Talk