The media aide of former military president, Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (retd), Prince Kassim Afegbua, said there is need to initiate process to criminalise fake news.
Afegbua made this call consequent to the rumoured death of his principal on Sunday.
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Disinformation of the death of Babangida swirled around at the weekend.
In a statement wherein he dispelled the report, Afegbua called for a bill to criminalise fake news.
The statement titled, “IBB is alive and bubbling,” reads in part: “it has become a piece of consistent fake news for quite some time now wishing our own IBB, the one we easily refer to as ‘the last don’ of Nigeria politics, dead.
“The ‘fake news bill’ would be a suitable response to this category of fake news carrier. IBB is very much alive and bubbling. He just started attending to friends and associates who came to see him today, Sunday, 15th December 2019 right here at his Minna hilltop mansion. He is full of life and in his characteristic bubbling mood.”
