Two days after he collapsed at an event in Lagos, Chocolate City music honcho, Audu Maikori, has reportedly been arrested by security agents. Reports indicate that he has been whisked to Kaduna.
This is the second time the 41-year-old lawyer would be arrested over his tweets on the Southern Kaduna killings. He was first arrested on February 18.
Despite the hoopla that surrounded his arrest and eventual release, the Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-rufai, has vowed that Audu would be made to face the full weight and wrath of the law, incidentally, the profession he (Audu) swears by.
Speaking at the Social Media Week in Lagos recently, el-Rufai said it was irresponsible of Maikori to have posted such information without verification. “He is going to be prosecuted. He was arrested. His statement has been taken. His fate will be decided by a judge. It’s not Nasir El-Rufai. It’s nothing personal. I have nothing against him. He has worked with the state government in the past.”
El-rufai further said, “Audu Maikori rushed to publish a false story without checking with anyone. But before then, he had been posting fake pictures by posting Boko Haram attacks, Rwanda genocide as southern Kaduna killings which elicited a lot of emotions on social media.” Even when pointed out to him that the information he posted was not true, that the College of Education does not run a mass communication programme and that the school had been closed down since November, the governor saud Audu still posted that he stands by his story. “Audu questioned the authenticity of the press statement. He was totally and completely irresponsible,” he quipped.
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