The Delta State Government has urged the public, particularly Deltans, to discountenance video clips purportedly on Warri residents defying its stay-at-home order over the Coronavirus pandemic and confronting security operatives, saying it was concocted and therefore fake.
The Commissioner for Information, Mr. Charles Aniagwu, made the call in a statement on Friday in Asaba, and said that the concocted videos were not a true representation of happenings in Warri or any part of Delta in the last 48 hours.
According to him, the videos in circulation are figments of the imagination of a few disgruntled elements bent at pitching the people against the state government.
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Aniagwu stated that the purported video of two military personnel threatening the residents of Warri was an arrangement of those who didn’t want the peace of the state, adding that the video was not a true representation of Nigerian military officers who know the implication of threatening citizens with such an illicit video.
He added that the military command whose responsibility it was to deploy personnel, had debunked the video material.
“Let me thank Deltans for their cooperation so far and urge them to discard the concocted videos aimed at causing disaffection between the military and Deltans.
“There is no report of killing of soldiers in Warri or any other part of Delta”.
He said the government would continue to appeal to the security agencies to apply rules of engagement as practised in most democracies as they carry out their lawful duties.
