Governor Shema Explains That Alleged 'Student' Was Arrested For Fraud And Not Over Facebook Criticism.

WHAT!!!!!!!

Katsina State governor, Ibrahim Shehu Shema has debunked reports on the social media that he ordered the arrest of a supposed student of the National Open University of Nigeria, Abdulmalik Sa’idu, because the student has been criticizing him on Facebook over an alleged fertilizer scam.

However, Governor Shema, who spoke through his Chief Press Secretary, Lawal Ahmad Matazu, described as “spurious and baseless” reports of Abdulmalik’s illegal detention based on trumped-up charges. He stressed that contrary to several online reports based on Abdulmalik’s version of events, Abdulmalik Sa’idu is a staff of the Local Government Service Commission and not a student.

According to Matazu, “his claim that he is a student of a tertiary institution has added another layer of dubiousness to Abdulmalik’s character proposition. We have asked him to produce a student Identity card from the University he claims to attend or name the said University, but none has been forthcoming.”

Hear the Chief Press Secretary as he narrates the Katsina State government’s version of what really happened:

“Sa’iadu Abdumalik is not facing persecution on the orders of the Katsina State Governor because of Facebook posts. The truth here is that Abdulmalik had been cloning cell phone numbers of several officials of the Katsina State Government to perpetrate a heinous scam.

“Abdulmalik will send text messages using a cloned phone number of Governor Shehu Shema while asking State Government officials to deposit humongous sums of money into a Keystone Bank account which he operated. 

The Head of Service, the Special Adviser on Girl-Child Education, the Commissioner for Finance, the Commissioner for Local Government and the Personal Assistant to the Governor had all received Abdulmalik’s text messages at various times asking for millions of Naira to be deposited into his Keystone account.

“In one of those dubious text messages from Abdulmalik’s bag of tricks with the Governor’s cloned number of: +2348051185004, Abdulmalik sent the following : ‘Send the amounts of N250,000, Acc, num. 1551335007, bank name. Keystone, by tomorrow morning.”

Matazu further pointed out that luck ran out on Abdulmalik when the state Commissioner for Local Government, in a meeting with the Governor, mentioned that he will deposit a certain sum of money as Governor Shema had requested. A shocked Governor Shema had wondered what transaction his Commissioner was talking about, necessitating the commissioner to show the Governor the text message delivered through Shema’s number.

“At this point, many members of Governor Shema’s Executive Council confessed receiving similar text messages from the same phone number. We had to call the mobile phone service provider whose number was being used here, to report the fraud. This led to putting a face to the scam and Abdulmalik was brought to Government House to defend himself,” he said.

The Governor’s spokesman continued that after Abdulmalik was warned to desist from the crime and allowed to go and sin no more, the Katsina Executive Council members and the Governor were surprised reading online reports few days afterwards that Abdulmalik was detained because he had turned hurling invective at the Governor and his administration on Facebook, into a pastime.

Matazu revealed that “that was when we invited him over again and charged him to the Katsina State magistrate court where he is currently facing charges related to financial crimes and scam.

“We were going to let him off initially if he was going to turn a new leaf. But turning the story completely on its head the next minute made charging him to court inevitable; if only to serve as a deterrent of some kind to other young people who may want to engage in similar activities,” he said culled

*I dont understand why they would warn him off the first time instead of arresting him outrightly,they let him go,see that he is running his mouth on facebook and invite him over and arrest him...this story get as e be.