Mr. Frank Anioma, a resident of Enugu who hides under the guise of ‘insecurity’ to spread fake news aimed at undermining the state government, has been caught right in the act, Igbere TV reports.
Igbere TV reports that Mr. Anioma, a former council boss, had on August 22, 2019 taken to social media to declare that his daughter (Kosisochukwu) had been kidnapped by unknown gunmen in the state.
“Please friends and good Nigerians help me. My Daughter Kosisochukwu was kidnapped this morning, Thurs 22nd Aug, about 7am on her way to New Heaven Market. Her phone 09027454532 was ringing without response. Now it’s ringing line busy. Please help repost this. Who knows, God will show us mercy”, he wrote.
This forced operatives of the Anti-kidnapping unit of the Enugu State Police Command to swing into action, where it was discovered that she was never kidnapped but with her boyfriend in Owerri, Imo State.
One would have expected Anioma to issue a disclaimer after picking his daughter from the park (as instructed by her) and discovering she was not kidnapped, but instead, he deliberately issued a statement that she had been rescued from her imaginative and non-existing abductors.
“My people I am so proud of you guys. I love you all (ifedika unu akokwanam). Please join me to thank God. He has done it. Your prayers has been answered. My daughter is alive and she’s at home now. I thank you all for your prayers, visits and words of encouragement. May none of you experience such trauma in Jesus name amen. We give God all the praise”, he wrote.
But according to Kosisochukwu, she was never kidnapped but traveled to Owerri in Imo State to visit her boyfriend whom she has not seen for a while owing to the prolonged holidays.
“I was not abducted nor kidnapped as stated by my father, I went out willingly from the compound. I later called him to come and pick me from the park to take me home because the money I had on me wasn’t enough for transport fare,” the 13-year-old SS1 girl told police investigators.
Many are wondering what Mr. Anioma planned to achieve with his false information, especially a man with such a pedigree. “Why is he hell-bent at blackmailing the state government?”, asked Ms. Stella Nkem Obi, a resident of Enugu.
“The worst of it all is that the same Frank Anioma after knowing the truth that his daughter was not kidnapped but sneaked out of the house to go and see her boyfriend in Owerri, deliberately rushed to the social media to lie again that his daughter has been rescued. See below also. What a mischief!
“God will continue to expose those who are bent on sabotaging the existing peace and good governance in Enugu State as well as undermining the tireless efforts of our people’s governor to secure our dear state as one of the most peaceful and safest states in Nigeria. We should recall that Rev. Fr. Nnamdi Nwankwo had recently raised the alarm that some people are sabotaging the efforts of Enugu State Governor in securing the state.
“For Uncle Frank, you have to tender an unreserved public apology to your family, friends and well-wishers, security agencies, Enugu State government and the entire people of the state, for this heinous embarrassment and expensive fake news. You must also be made to face the wrath of the law for peddling fake news so that others will learn”, she said.
“Brothers and sisters, please let’s join hands and say No to Fake News in Enugu State and those who are sabotaging the state government. Thank you”, Stella Nkem Obi added.
