Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State has said that the claim that he supervised the flogging of civil servants while on inspection at the Government House gate, Abakaliki, is false.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that a video went viral on Tuesday, alleging that Umahi ordered soldiers to flog civil servants while he watches on.
But in a statement by the state’s Commissioner for Information and State Orientation, Orji Uchenna Orji, the governor said the controversial video was an aborted attempt by miscreants to block the Airport gate in the guise that they were enforcing a sit-at-home order.
“Our attention has been drawn to a doctored footage purporting to be Civil Servants rolling on the ground and being flogged by security personnel in the presence of the Governor of Ebonyi State while on inspection at the Government House gate, Abakaliki as reported, shared widely in different social media platforms and accepted line hook and sinker by the gullible.
“We wish to inform members of the public that the purported footage is a video manipulation of an aborted attempt by miscreants to block the Airport gate and inflict fear on those working at the ongoing International Airport and possibly embarrass the Governor who was on a routine inspection visit to the Airport project, in guise that they were enforcing sit-at home- order at the premises of the Airport on Tuesday, 4th September, 2022.
“It is to be noted that no Civil Servants or employees whatsoever have been recruited to work in the Airport and so no Civil Servant was flogged at the Airport gate, contrary to impression in the trending report,” the statement reads in part.
