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Lai Mohammed, former minister of information and culture, says social media threatened his 40-year old marriage.
Speaking on how the menace almost ruined his marriage, Mohammed said the consequences of fake news, disinformation and misinformation were far-reaching“Permit me to share publicly with you today for the first time, how social media threatened the foundation of my forty-year-old marriage,” he said. “I could not fathom what was that urgent or serious to warrant being woken up at this time of the night.The former minister said the accusation from his wife was “a bombshell”.“Daddy, death can come knocking at any moment, please let me also, as your wife, be a signatory to your oversea account in Ali Financial which contains 1.3 billion dollars,” his wife reportedly said.
“I had to fetch a calculator and reproduce the federal appropriation act for 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 in the middle of the night and explain to her why it is simply preposterous for me to have 1.3 billion dollars in a foreign account.“I explained to her that there is no year my capital budget exceeded N5 billion, which then, at about N400 to a dollar, was just 12.5 million dollars.
He noted that while in government, his ministry uncovered 476 online publications that were dedicated to spreading fake news against the previous administration. “Therefore, the media, as custodians of the public trust, must take decisive action to combat the scourge of disinformation and misinformation.”
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