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The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has condemned the Cable News Network (CNN) over its coverage of the riot at Capitol Hill on the United States and the Lekki Toll Gate shooting in Lagos.

Mohammed told THISDAY in an interview that CNN created division and concocted lies against Nigeria when the federal government insisted on regulating social media.

He said when a scenario similar to the Lekki incident occurred in the US on January 6, CNN categorised the US Congress attackers as “insurrectionists” while describing the EndSARS crowd at Lekki on October 22, last year as “peaceful” and “harmless” protesters.

The minister said CNN’s objection to the federal government’s attempt to regulate the social media ran against logic given that Twitter and Instagram also suspended the of former US President Donald Trump for allegedly using the platform to spread fake news and make inciting remarks.

He said: “But when we said we must regulate the social media, the world took up arms against us. How come that the same CNN that invented lies against us is suddenly championing the crusade in America that social media must not be used for fake news and disinformation?”

He accused the EndSARS protesters of spreading fake news that incited anger which led to the killing of 37 policemen nationwide, adding it was fake news reported by the media, using social media, that led to the looting, killing and arson by hoodlums who hijacked the peaceful #EndSARS protest.

Mohammed said until the night of October 22, the EndSARS protest was peaceful until it became violent when hoodlums hijacked it.

He also described Amnesty International as an irritant and a purveyor of disinformation and fake news for castigating the federal government on its handling of the EndSARS protest.

Mohammed challenged the human rights group that said 12 protesters were shot at Lekki to appear before a judicial of inquiry with evidence.

“Give the names and addresses. Three months or 100 days after the Lekki shooting, if anybody has lost a relation, a son, a daughter or a ward, won’t she or he have come forward? Amnesty International is not a respecter of our judicial system. What it ought to do, if there is any judicial evidence, is to go before the judicial of enquiry or at least wait for the outcome of the judicial enquiry.

“Amnesty International is reproving the federal government, but as we speak, the American government is arresting and prosecuting every person that took part in the invasion of the Capitol Hill. They are also investigating the source of funding of those people. When Nigeria started it they went to court, forgetting that it is because Nigeria exists as a country that we are here. When one policeman was killed at the Capitol, it was an insurrection. If not because we were proactive, they were coming to the National Assembly and CNN did not see anything wrong in that. Amnesty is guilty of double standards. When the US refused a visa to ICC investigators, Amnesty did not find its voice. It should respect us as a sovereign nation and should stop vending lies, disinformation. Their purpose we don’t know, but this is very clear when it is Nigeria they find their voices when it is America, they keep mute,” the minister added.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2021/02/03/again-mohammed-berates-cnn-over-lekki-toll-gate-shootings/amp/

did this man has brain at all?

They should go to hell

Fake media

woleabayo:
did this man has brain at all?

It's called senility: declining brain function due to old age.
It's not compulsory that one must have it when old,but for some unknown reason,some people even in not too advanced an age come down with this debilitating condition.
Lai is clearly not a normal person.
Check this:He is comparing CNN coverage of rioters storming the US Capitol (assembly)and wanting to assassinate a sitting VP and Speaker (number 3 in secession) to peaceful protesters a thousand kilometres off the seat of government in Abuja;that even at that just blocked a toll plaza.
Is that the thought process of a normal person to u?

".....For these reasons and many more, we are quite convinced that just like the Zaria massacre which the Army denied until it was proven by the Kaduna State Govt-formed Commission for Judicial Inquiry, the deaths from the Lekki massacre are definitely higher than we have listed......"

https://www.thecable.ng/portraits-of-blood-ii-names-photos-videos-how-lekki-endsars-protesters-were-shot

This man forgets that many of the Trump ers involved in that arson/brigandage have been arrested & currently being tried in many courts across the US.Even Donald Trump-the former POTUS is still undergoing trial for the alleged role he played in that lawlessness.

The US have strong democratic institutions that are working well for it unlike the tyranny Nigeria is running wherein the DSS, NPF, armed forces are all instruments of state terror. Even President Trump was suspended from social media but ours wants to gag the same just to
shut out opposing voices.

However, will this have happened under a govt that have zero tolerance for any opposition like the APC govt is doing? What have happened to the thugs/hoodlums that attacked #EndSARS protesters in Abuja and Lagos?

Every sensible Nigerian is disappointed by the action of this man. Even his own children. He should respect his age.

God will judge your tongue

Hmmm

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Lie Bee-Rates See Hen Hen!

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While some were born to lead, rule , save , be a blessing etc.

This man was born to LIE.

I don't see dis man as a fool, I see people dat take his word serious as d fool

KING OF LIES

Lai has gone mad again

This man

Idiat!!!

I've nothing to say but " idiat "

CNN, fake media

Agent of destruction.

They won't even let Trump be even after losing...

Who takes lies seriously

what...... mr lie can never change.

Like a journalist once said ‘Lai and his lies’
That I will never forget
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old fool keep embarrassing himself daily

A dog that is destined to doom first damns the hunter's call.

This guy can turn anything over it's head and then come around to blame you for seeing it.

Uncle Lai is at the peak of his life. Let him, please.

Does anyone know how to locate "Ijebu thunder".

That what this particular "LIE" Moh'd needs

the greatest lying machine of the evil party.satan still they learn from this man when it comes to lying

One word for this man- Scoundrel

It is unbelievable that this man has a family, how do he look at them? How does he sleep at night knowing he has caused many millions of people pains!

When Ever lai muhamed is talking, something told me it is a lie.

world most notorious lying machine.

Lai giving it to CNN hot, hot