Kaduna Teacher Arrested For Spreading ‘Fake News’ Over Kidnap Of Doctor’s Family

For raising false alarm that a policeman was involved in the kidnap of a Kaduna doctor’s wife and his two children, a 34-year old female teacher, Grace Ibrahim has been arrested.

Ibrahim was said to be behind the fake news that a policeman was behind the kidnap of Philip Ataga’s wife and his two children.

Recall that the kidnappers had killed the wife of the doctor, while his children were released early February. They were abducted on January 25.

Ibrahim had also, in a viral post said one of the children had identified a neighbour, who is a policeman as the person that ordered the shooting of their mother.

But she apologized over the viral message when she was paraded at the Force Headquarters, saying that she did not verify her information before spreading it as news.

She expressed regrets over any damage the post may have done.

Also, the Kaduna State Police Command and the family of Ataga, had dismissed the social media report on the involvement of a police officer in the kidnapping and killing of Mrs. Ataga in Kaduna.

Ataga told newsmen in Kaduna that the social media report that his daughter recognised one of the killers of her mother as a police officer, was absolutely false.

The police in a statement by the Command Public Relations Officer, ASP Mohammed Jalige, also dismissed the report as fake.