Borno
Fact-Check Exposes Borno Lawmaker Threatening Death of Opponents
Latest PRNigeria fact-checks have cleared the air on recent trending videos purportedly showing the Seni, the son of former Senate President Bukola Saraki spraying dollars in a strip party, and that of a Borno lawmaker threatening to kill and bury his opponents at the forthcoming general elections.
While the Fact-Check exonerated Saraki’s son, the Borno State Lawmaker was confirmed to have threatened political opponents with deaths.
A 7-second video recently emerged on Facebook and other social media platforms claiming that the member representing Nganzai at the Borno State House of Assembly, Hon Mohammed Ali Gajiram, threatened to kill and bury anyone working against his political party, All Progressive Congress (APC) in his senatorial district.
PRNigeria conducted a keyword search and results from some media stated that the Member representing Nganzai Mohammed Ali Gajiram at the Borno State House of Assembly had debunked the video, describing it as a “concocted and re-edit video.”
Using the Facebook Search bar, PRNigeria discovered the full video of Mr. Gajiram speaking in Kanuri. To avoid misquotation, a Maiduguri-based Kanuri journalist Bukar Alibe translated the footage into English.
The translated version of the video reads: “We have Ambassador Baba Ahmad Jidda in Marte Local Government. We must win the election even if we will beat them with stick, dig a hole, and bury them. We have MT Monguno in Monguno. We must win the election even if we will use a stick to beat them and bury them in a hole. We have Engr. Bukar Talba and we must win the election.”
Based on the conceptual understanding of Mr Mohammed Ali Gajiram’s Kanuri speech and forensic examination of the footage by PRNigeria, the claim that he threatened to “kill and bury” is TRUE. Similarly, the claim by the lawmaker that the video was doctored is FALSE.
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