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#EndSARS: CNN Clarifies Its Tweet About ''38'' Nigerians Killed by Nobody: 11:38pm On Nov 26, 2020
On October 23, CNN Africa had tweeted that at least 38 persons were killed on Tuesday, October 20, when the military opened fire on peaceful protesters. This tweet was referring to the Lekki shooting incident.

The tweet read:

''At least 38 people were killed in Nigeria on Tuesday when the military opened fire on peaceful protesters

But the President failed to address the carnage during his speech on Thursday, drawing criticism from protesters who accuse him of failing to show empathy & unify the nation''
https://twitter.com/CNNAfrica/status/1319675220765138948?s=19

In an updated tweet, CNN Africa has now come out with a clarification. It reads:

''Clarification: This tweet from October 23 did not attribute the death toll from protests in Nigeria to Amnesty International. The tweet also did not make it clear that the death toll was for protests across the country.''
https://twitter.com/CNNAfrica/status/1332068344376274948?s=19

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Re: #EndSARS: CNN Clarifies Its Tweet About ''38'' Nigerians Killed by Vaughanlanrewaj: 11:42pm On Nov 26, 2020
I stated here before that heads will roll at CNN.

That was a horrible report.
Nigeria will sue them if they don't apologise and do more than this infantile recant.

Perhaps they still think it is joke.

How on earth can you state that 36 people were shot dead by soldiers without being at the scene and in the face of very credible question still hanging in the air "if soldiers killed even 1 person with their bullets,let alone 36 or 78 according to alleged lie by Switch, did soldiers kill all their friends,families,colleagues,neighbours, pastors/imams,boyfriends,girlfriends etc too? shocked

All the revenue CNN generated on those days from the online traffic and on TV viewership while beaming that fake news must be demanded as damages and used to take care of victims of police brutality, victims of the carnage and those their fake news further destroyed. The request for the damages must co-copy HE Donald Trump, the Republic Party and CBS.

Amnesty international must receive their own letter too while Lagos State Government must investigate the audio of IPOB leader instructing and commanding his IPOB members to burn down Lagos and establish the nexus between the audio and the coordinated arson in Lagos.
If found culpable, he should be reported to ICC and Interpol and other international bodies and prosecuted in absentia if he does not turn himself in.

If HE Sanwo Olu does not investigate this IPOB leader audio telling people to burn down Lagos, Lagosians, indigenes and Association of Lagos indigenes like the Lagos State Council of Obas and others should sue the government for not doing its job and compel the government to investigate the whole audio and movement of youths from the South East to join the protest in Lagos when same protest was going on in the South East!

This injustice against Lagos and Lagosians will not be permitted.

It is completely despicable that someone will tell people to go burn down Lagos and still not be charged by now. It is enabling him to commit more crime or someone else to wake up someday and instruct people to go burn down Abuja or Onitsha or Kaduna or PH or Benin and those places get burnt and we carry on as if we can't enforce our own laws.
#Justice for Lagos and victims of the carnage in Lagos



I think they were reckless and their shoddy coverage will eventually make heads roll in CNN.
Heads will roll just like the last time they paid some people to act like MEND until they got busted.


They were absolutely reckless especially after HE Trump called them fake news media for 4 years.


This damning verdict by this independent body of journalists is just the beginning. They were not even at the scene yet ignored the report of those credible media houses present at the scene.

Yet they are grandstanding.

CNN used some of the fake creatives that IPOB leader and his followers used to distract while they allegedly carry out the instruction of their leader to cowardly burn down Lagos.

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Re: #EndSARS: CNN Clarifies Its Tweet About ''38'' Nigerians Killed by saintade01(m): 11:45pm On Nov 26, 2020
A lie told by 1 million people for millions of years will remain a lie.

We're not Libya and your mission to cause insurrection in Nigeria will fail.

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Re: #EndSARS: CNN Clarifies Its Tweet About ''38'' Nigerians Killed by jchioma: 11:47pm On Nov 26, 2020
So, what are they saying? Is this a retraction or clarification. If this is a clarification, it did not answer the question.

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Re: #EndSARS: CNN Clarifies Its Tweet About ''38'' Nigerians Killed by giftedben: 11:51pm On Nov 26, 2020
They got the figures all wrong. More than 36 protesters were murdered by the Military.

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Re: #EndSARS: CNN Clarifies Its Tweet About ''38'' Nigerians Killed by sehin79(m): 11:52pm On Nov 26, 2020
FAKE news media.... they have lost their credibility... trump the kryptonite of CNN...

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Re: #EndSARS: CNN Clarifies Its Tweet About ''38'' Nigerians Killed by CilicMarin: 12:00am On Nov 27, 2020
Lai Mohammed's letter is working...

CNN has been a useless News network...

May God Punish CNN and IPOB terrorists....



lalasticlala Mynd44

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Re: #EndSARS: CNN Clarifies Its Tweet About ''38'' Nigerians Killed by Agbegbaorogboye: 12:06am On Nov 27, 2020
Upti123:
CNN Recant Story That Claimed 36 People Were Shot Dead At Lekki Toll Gate But Failed To Apologise
Where's the recant?
Can't you see both tweets are unrelated?

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Re: #EndSARS: CNN Clarifies Its Tweet About ''38'' Nigerians Killed by IJOBA2: 12:07am On Nov 27, 2020
CilicMarin:
Lai Mohammed's letter is working...

CNN has been a useless News network...

May God Punish CNN and IPOB terrorists....



lalasticlala Mynd44
ZONE B IN CHIEF, HOW YOU DEY TAKE SLEEP FOR NIGHT embarassed

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Re: #EndSARS: CNN Clarifies Its Tweet About ''38'' Nigerians Killed by Nbotee(m): 12:08am On Nov 27, 2020
saintade01:
A lie told by 1 million people for millions of years will remain a lie.

We're not Libya and your mission to cause insurrection in Nigeria will fail.

But countless lies by the army and govt about the incident makes sense right? How many times have d army and d govt changed its narrative on what happened in Lekki?

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Re: #EndSARS: CNN Clarifies Its Tweet About ''38'' Nigerians Killed by IJOBA2: 12:12am On Nov 27, 2020
THESE CHILDREN WILL HAVE A FIELD DAY HERE TOMORROW MORNING

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Re: #EndSARS: CNN Clarifies Its Tweet About ''38'' Nigerians Killed by Vaughanlanrewaj: 12:17am On Nov 27, 2020
Agbegbaorogboye:

Where's the recant?
Can't you see both tweets are unrelated?

Their previous tweet stated 36 people were killed when military opened fire on protesters on 23rd October, the recant is that the 36 deaths they reported were not from the protest and they were not quoting Amnesty . Unfortunately for them, internet never forgets

We knew Amnesty International was shifting the number until it settled at 12 but here CNN is utterly implicating itself.

Their previous tweet stated how their alleged 36 dead got killed; by soldiers who fired at the protesters! Their phoney investigation embellished it by citing some manipulated social media or probably IPOB sponsored videos of Lekki incident meaning that the 36 alleged deaths were their own account of deaths at Lekki. Yet they were never there and even ignored to cite the report of those credible media houses like BBC, Channels TV at the scene to give a measure of balance.

It would be very good to see a full copy of that letter Alhaji Lai Mohammed wrote them and pre-empt where their next denial will come from.

Amnesty must have thrown them under the moving bus before they denied quoting Amnesty.

Channels TV was actually right until the "online mob" blanked them out with evil accusations.

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Re: #EndSARS: CNN Clarifies Its Tweet About ''38'' Nigerians Killed by Gandollaar(f): 1:23am On Nov 27, 2020
jchioma:
So, what are they saying? Is this a retraction or clarification. If this is a clarification, it did not answer the question.
Don't let zombies fool you. Read for yourself. No recant anywhere.

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Re: #EndSARS: CNN Clarifies Its Tweet About ''38'' Nigerians Killed by rossniti: 1:23am On Nov 27, 2020
Vaughanlanrewaj:
I stated here before that heads will roll at CNN.

That was a horrible report.
Nigeria will sue them if they don't apologise and do more than this infantile recant.

Perhaps they still think it is joke.

How on earth can you state that 36 people were shot dead by soldiers without being at the scene and in the face of very credible question still hanging in the air "if soldiers killed even 1 person with their bullets,let alone 36 or 78 according to alleged lie by Switch, did soldiers kill all their friends,families,colleagues,neighbours, pastors/imams,boyfriends,girlfriends etc too? shocked

All the revenue CNN generated on those days from the online traffic and on TV viewership while beaming that fake news must be demanded as damages and used to take care of victims of police brutality, victims of the carnage and those their fake news further destroyed. The request for the damages must co-copy HE Donald Trump, the Republic Party and CBS.

Amnesty international must receive their own letter too while Lagos State Government must investigate the audio of IPOB leader instructing and commanding his IPOB members to burn down Lagos and establish the nexus between the audio and the coordinated arson in Lagos.
If found culpable, he should be reported to ICC and Interpol and other international bodies and prosecuted in absentia if he does not turn himself in.

If HE Sanwo Olu does not investigate this IPOB leader audio telling people to burn down Lagos, Lagosians, indigenes and Association of Lagos indigenes like the Lagos State Council of Obas and others should sue the government for not doing its job and compel the government to investigate the whole audio and movement of youths from the South East to join the protest in Lagos when same protest was going on in the South East!

This injustice against Lagos and Lagosians will not be permitted.

It is completely despicable that someone will tell people to go burn down Lagos and still not be charged by now. It is enabling him to commit more crime or someone else to wake up someday and instruct people to go burn down Abuja or Onitsha or Kaduna or PH or Benin and those places get burnt and we carry on as if we can't enforce our own laws.
#Justice for Lagos and victims of the carnage in Lagos



I think they were reckless and their shoddy coverage will eventually make heads roll in CNN.
Heads will roll just like the last time they paid some people to act like MEND until they got busted.


They were absolutely reckless especially after HE Trump called them fake news media for 4 years.


This damning verdict by this independent body of journalists is just the beginning. They were not even at the scene yet ignored the report of those credible media houses present at the scene.

Yet they are grandstanding.

CNN used some of the fake creatives that IPOB leader and his followers used to distract while they allegedly carry out the instruction of their leader to cowardly burn down Lagos.

And a big SHAME on all Nigerians who simply believed and accepted the CNN claims outright, simply because it was CNN.

Back then we were calling you fools and donkeys for blindly believing them without evidence.

NOW YOU SEE HOW DUMB YOU ARE?

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Re: #EndSARS: CNN Clarifies Its Tweet About ''38'' Nigerians Killed by scribble: 1:30am On Nov 27, 2020
Thats not a recant

It just makes the Nigerian government look more stupid

You paid lai laptop crew really expect the low iq people to believe your propaganda

It might work in buharis base but the rest of the world understand how foolish this administration looks trying to make it appear their shite doesn't stink

Meanwhile its oozing to high heaven and its apparent

Ok look at the fallacy of the op composition

He said recant but in the cnn tweet its stating clearly that at least 38 died in nationwide protests and the Lai bots are now on nairaland trying to say its a recant because its not Lekki extra judicial killings but nationwide and after all Nigeria is known for multiple senseless killings daily especially when Mr I like to soak in monkey and baboon blood is president

You people are bereft

Doofus

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Re: #EndSARS: CNN Clarifies Its Tweet About ''38'' Nigerians Killed by Naajjii: 1:58am On Nov 27, 2020
Over to you IPOD, DJ switch and Igbo people who in trying to discredit President Buhari's government created those fake news, falsehood ,lies and propaganda. If there was a massacre show us the people massacred they couldn't. Its only dumped and mischievous people that will believe the story that people were massacred at the toll gate.If you people want to know what is massacre go to Congo, Rwanda,Burundi,Somalia etc you will understand what massacre is. Imagine this Igbo People misled a whole CNN.
Its time operation python resumes its work on that Terrorist group called IPOD

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Re: #EndSARS: CNN Clarifies Its Tweet About ''38'' Nigerians Killed by ask4loan(m): 2:09am On Nov 27, 2020
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Re: #EndSARS: CNN Clarifies Its Tweet About ''38'' Nigerians Killed by Nobody: 2:11am On Nov 27, 2020
WE ALL KNOW CNN IS FAKE NEWS

THE ONLY REASON THOSE ENDSAR SUPPORTERS BELIEVE CNN IS BECAUSE IT GOES WITH THEIR FAKE NARRATIVES

MANY OF THE ENDSAR SUPPORTERS CAN'T DEAL WITH THE FACT THAT NO SHOOTING OR MASSACRE HAPPENED AT LEKKI TOLLGATE

MOST OF THESE ENDSAR SUPPORTERS ARE SUFFERING FROM COGNITIVE DISSONANCE, THEY CAN'T JUST FATHOM THE IDEA THAT NIGERIAN ARMY ACTED PROFESSIONALLY AT LEKKI TOLLGATE

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Re: #EndSARS: CNN Clarifies Its Tweet About ''38'' Nigerians Killed by helinues: 3:23am On Nov 27, 2020
Na old time God dey tey before catching up on bad people, God of these days, na speed of light in response .

Following the crowds sometimes could be disastrous, that's exactly what happened with the Lekki event.. Though the too early released of Photoshop photos did some damages.

There was shooting at Lekki on that day, after the arrival of the army but they did not aim at the protesters.. At least each officers must have nothing less than 5-6 bullets.. How many army will occupy one truck? Let's say 10, X 5 trucks making 50 officers on ground.

One bullet could kill at least 2 people ... If the army indeed shot at the protesters, the casualities should have been more than that both dead and injured.

But if you are emotional driven, can't think rationally, , assimilate information , having fixated beliefs about something and can't make use of your sense of judgement without listening to Dem say Dem say, then you go fall for the acclaimed Lekki massacre

Is the lawd not wonderful, are there no single NL's residing in Lekki , around Lekki Toll gate that participated in the partying protest ( After curfew was earlier declared by 4pm) or have first hand information with evidence about what transpired that day... grin

In summary, no direct shooting at the protesters
There was nothing like Massacre at Lekki


So, we have been praying, may God punish and expose all the enemies of Nigeria .... Amen!!!

Lalasticlacla
OAMJ4

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Re: #EndSARS: CNN Clarifies Its Tweet About ''38'' Nigerians Killed by tobechi20(m): 3:50am On Nov 27, 2020
Experience has taught me never to dismiss an allegation for want of evidence.

CNN may not have all the evidence at their disposal ,It does not mean they lied.

A mad man may be telling the truth but we will not believe him because he has been labelled mad in the past.

All of us shouting for evidence of the dead bodies.

Can you show me one evidence of God. Yet you go about saying God exist.

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Re: #EndSARS: CNN Clarifies Its Tweet About ''38'' Nigerians Killed by Nobody: 4:03am On Nov 27, 2020
sehin79:
FAKE news media.... they have lost their credibility... trump the kryptonite of CNN...

Stop deceiving urself and ur fellow zombies. They didn't recant anything.

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Re: #EndSARS: CNN Clarifies Its Tweet About ''38'' Nigerians Killed by omenka(m): 4:29am On Nov 27, 2020
This is bad. Why put out such an inflammable tweet when its content is so ambiguous and subject to the worst interpretations?

Clarity is key when making reference to events like this. I've never doubted the journalistic prowess of those at CNN neither have I ever doubted their credibility. They should avoid making silly mistakes like this.

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Re: #EndSARS: CNN Clarifies Its Tweet About ''38'' Nigerians Killed by Bighead5: 5:18am On Nov 27, 2020
OOzz:


Stop deceiving urself and ur fellow zombies. They didn't recant anything.

See one of them here.
Nigerians are fully aware of those that caused/took part in the destructions in Lagos, East and Rivers. But we will soon pay them back in their own coins
.

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Re: #EndSARS: CNN Clarifies Its Tweet About ''38'' Nigerians Killed by Realerreal: 5:20am On Nov 27, 2020
We know you work for the horrible government. So sad for you.
Vaughanlanrewaj:
I stated here before that heads will roll at CNN.

That was a horrible report.
Nigeria will sue them if they don't apologise and do more than this infantile recant.

Perhaps they still think it is joke.

How on earth can you state that 36 people were shot dead by soldiers without being at the scene and in the face of very credible question still hanging in the air "if soldiers killed even 1 person with their bullets,let alone 36 or 78 according to alleged lie by Switch, did soldiers kill all their friends,families,colleagues,neighbours, pastors/imams,boyfriends,girlfriends etc too? shocked

All the revenue CNN generated on those days from the online traffic and on TV viewership while beaming that fake news must be demanded as damages and used to take care of victims of police brutality, victims of the carnage and those their fake news further destroyed. The request for the damages must co-copy HE Donald Trump, the Republic Party and CBS.

Amnesty international must receive their own letter too while Lagos State Government must investigate the audio of IPOB leader instructing and commanding his IPOB members to burn down Lagos and establish the nexus between the audio and the coordinated arson in Lagos.
If found culpable, he should be reported to ICC and Interpol and other international bodies and prosecuted in absentia if he does not turn himself in.

If HE Sanwo Olu does not investigate this IPOB leader audio telling people to burn down Lagos, Lagosians, indigenes and Association of Lagos indigenes like the Lagos State Council of Obas and others should sue the government for not doing its job and compel the government to investigate the whole audio and movement of youths from the South East to join the protest in Lagos when same protest was going on in the South East!

This injustice against Lagos and Lagosians will not be permitted.

It is completely despicable that someone will tell people to go burn down Lagos and still not be charged by now. It is enabling him to commit more crime or someone else to wake up someday and instruct people to go burn down Abuja or Onitsha or Kaduna or PH or Benin and those places get burnt and we carry on as if we can't enforce our own laws.
#Justice for Lagos and victims of the carnage in Lagos



I think they were reckless and their shoddy coverage will eventually make heads roll in CNN.
Heads will roll just like the last time they paid some people to act like MEND until they got busted.


They were absolutely reckless especially after HE Trump called them fake news media for 4 years.


This damning verdict by this independent body of journalists is just the beginning. They were not even at the scene yet ignored the report of those credible media houses present at the scene.

Yet they are grandstanding.

CNN used some of the fake creatives that IPOB leader and his followers used to distract while they allegedly carry out the instruction of their leader to cowardly burn down Lagos.

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Re: #EndSARS: CNN Clarifies Its Tweet About ''38'' Nigerians Killed by capitalzero: 5:41am On Nov 27, 2020
Fatalities may be more than 38. It was wrong for CNN to state specific figures

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Re: #EndSARS: CNN Clarifies Its Tweet About ''38'' Nigerians Killed by Racoon(m): 5:44am On Nov 27, 2020
The attitudinal approach of the lying government have made this gory Lekki incident a national & international embarrassment.

Even the ding dong lies between the security agencies & govt appointees, the draconian slamming of fine on Nigerian media houses, arbitrary arrest and threat on #EndSARS protesters by the govt are all indicators that the Nigerian govt is on a cover up mission.

Mr president never said anything about this ugly Lekki incident till date-why? Why are the bank accounts of #EndSARS protesters being blocked while BH terrorists sponsors are wiring out staggering amount of monies under the same govt without detection? Nothing new! Terrorist enjoy undeserving amnesty while peaceful protester have become terrorists.

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Re: #EndSARS: CNN Clarifies Its Tweet About ''38'' Nigerians Killed by Racoon(m): 5:45am On Nov 27, 2020
A dangerous side to the #EndSARS protest and its aftermath that this government and its zombies have never talked about or answered is who were these thugs/ hoodlums that were being confidently distributed around Lagos & Abuja areas to attacked peaceful protesters that the DSS, Army, police or government have never done anything about till date?

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Re: #EndSARS: CNN Clarifies Its Tweet About ''38'' Nigerians Killed by DesChyko: 5:53am On Nov 27, 2020
Vaughanlanrewaj:

Channels TV was actually right until the "online mob" blanked them out with evil accusations.

Shey you just want to be funny or what?
Can any NBC-censored station do what CNN is doing and not get liquidated?

CNN is a product of a mature democracy unlike any institution in Nigeria.

Evidence upon evidence are reeled out upon forensic analysis of videos and instead of FG to counter-analyse these videos (or the livestream if they can grin), they are releasing their minions and letters in comic fonts.

CNN is everything every Nigerian news media wish they were at the moment.

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Re: #EndSARS: CNN Clarifies Its Tweet About ''38'' Nigerians Killed by Agbegbaorogboye: 6:21am On Nov 27, 2020
Vaughanlanrewaj:


Their previous tweet stated 36 people were killed when military opened fire on protesters on 23rd October, the recant is that the 36 deaths they reported were not from the protest and they were not quoting Amnesty . Unfortunately for them, internet never forgets

We knew Amnesty International was shifting the number until it settled at 12 but here CNN is utterly implicating itself.

Their previous tweet stated how their alleged 36 dead got killed; by soldiers who fired at the protesters! Their phoney investigation embellished it by citing some manipulated social media or probably IPOB sponsored videos of Lekki incident meaning that the 36 alleged deaths were their own account of deaths at Lekki. Yet they were never there and even ignored to cite the report of those credible media houses like BBC, Channels TV at the scene to give a measure of balance.

It would be very good to see a full copy of that letter Alhaji Lai Mohammed wrote them and pre-empt where their next denial will come from.

Amnesty must have thrown them under the moving bus before they denied quoting Amnesty.

Channels TV was actually right until the "online mob" blanked them out with evil accusations.
Look at both tweets well.
Tweet 1 talks about 38 not even 36 deaths not being from amnesty international's statement.
Tweet 2 which starts with CLARIFICATION is quoting the previous tweet about deaths from an attempted prison break and puts total deaths at 56.
So how are the two related and where's the recant there. Clarification tweets says the figure being quoted is not from amnesty not that it never happened. Try read both tweets and understand.

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