Fake CNN Reporter Nabbed In Bayelsa

The State Security Service (SSS) has arrested a man identified as Paul Yempe over his false claim to be a Correspondent to the Cable News Network (CNN) in the Niger Delta region. He was apprehended by the state Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Mr. Tariyon Akono who handed him over to the Department of State Service (DSS).

According to the SSS, the fake CNN reporter was arrested with an Identification Card of the Rivers State Broadcasting Corporation known as Radio Rivers and a fake Identification card of the CNN.

The arrest, it was gathered, was made possible due to the coincidental presence of the NUJ chairman, Tare Akono at the Commissioner’s Office.

Sources within the NUJ and the SSS confirmed that the fake CNN reporters had allegedly swindled the State Information Commissioner, Deacon Markson Fefegha and the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Professor Edmund Allission-Oguru.

Though the Bayelsa state Commissioner for Information said he never parted with any money, the SSG was said to have paid up for a hotel accommodation for the fake journalist who claimed he was in the state to do a documentary on the state.