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Video Proof: Vice President Osinbajo Never Said Kidnapping In Nigeria Is Exaggerated
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Jun 26, 2019 6:58 PM

The headline “Kidnapping in Nigeria is exaggerated” accredited to Nigeria’s Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo, is simply not true.

Making this disclosure, Senior Special adviser to the Vice president on media, Laolu Akande affirmed that Professor Osinbajo never used the word “exaggerated”; not even by implication.
This was after a state run media, the New Agency Of Nigeria, NAN quoted the VP with the headline, “Kidnapping in Nigeria is exaggerated – VP Osinbajo” as saying that “Kidnapping in is exaggerated for political gains and not entirely new.

But reacting Akande said that the vice president’s remarks about the social media being hysterical was a general response to comments made by participants at the meeting.
According to him, the VP had in New York warned about applying caution in assimilating information on social media, while speaking on Nigeria’s security situation.
The VP was quoted by his aide to have warned against relying entirely for information on social media as the platform media tends to be hysterical about practically everything.
Osinbajo expressed there was also a lot of politics involved in some of the information as they comes up, while stressing on the importance of pointing out that this new wave of issues of security came immediately after the elections.
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Mr. Akande did however admit that the Vice President did mention that some of the reports of insecurity are fueled by politics.
“Some are fueled by politics, but there are cases of kidnapping, there is no question at all about that….and every story we try to track and trace.
When you track them, you find out that people just tell some s
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