Presidential Spokesman, Femi Adesina, on Sunday, denied opposing earlier plans by President Muhammadu Buhari to scrap the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS).
The body which was eventually disbanded on Sunday by the Inspector General of Police, IGP Muhammad Adamu, in a national broadcast, following nationwide protest, was accused of abandoning its primary responsibilities and perpetrating crimes against those it was created to protect.
Adesina in a statement on Sunday, however, said an “online newspaper published by a so-called journalist notorious for fake stories has published that President Muhammadu Buhari was to have scrapped the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) on Friday, but was prevailed upon by presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, not to do so.”
According to President’s Media aide, ” The tendentious publication claimed Adesina hinged his argument on the fact that “the administration should not surrender to Twitter warriors.”
“While the FSARS saga lasted, I did not say a word on it, whether publicly or privately. Why? It was not within my brief. It rested squarely with the Nigeria Police Force, which has its own spokesman”
“For the online publication to have cooked outright falsehood against me shows the riot that is going on in that space, in the name of journalism.”
Adesina claimed that the ” brain behind the blog had always twisted stories against me and his former employers would testify that I had officially reported him about twice, till I then declined to grant him interviews again.
He therefore pleaded that the publication should please be treated as what it is: “lie from the pit of hell. A concoction, falsehood from a diseased mind, bent on causing disaffection against other people.”
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