Governor Bello Masari to journalists, fear God
By Abdulgafar Oladimeji
Katsina state governor, Bello Masari has cautioned Citizen journalism practitioners to refrain from the alleged ungodly act of spreading fake news.
Masari, who spoke at the truanting ceremony of Yusuf Buhari as Talban Daura emirate council, bemoan the flakes skills used by bloggers to deliberately misinform their audience.
The governor, who spoke in local parlance said “ we have those who report the truth, we also have those who specialize is disbursing lies using their blogs and social handles to misguide, misinform and misdirect the public.
“these set of people should remember that there is judgment day coming ahead, what you sow you will surely reap, you sit within the comfort of your room, or you sit by the road side and you craft false hood and disseminate it to the public, you will sow what you reap.
He said the act of flakes and dissemination of falsehood are acts that contravenes public trust, adding that the action , which is now allegedly rampant is a breach of the provisions of mosaic injunctions, urging media practitioners to imbibe the fear Allah, while discharging their civic duties..