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Mallam Garba Shehu has warned media houses against hasty publication of unverified accusations against government officials simply for the sensationalism value, without journalists doing the due diligence required of them by their profession.
The official Spokesperson to the President made this known on Saturday after Punch newspaper published an article on Abba Kyari saying that ‘the Presidency takes strong offence to the improbable and outlandish publication in a dig at presidential aide Abba Kyari who was alleged to have collected a 29 million naira bribe for the awarding of a contract.
Garba Shehu said that the allegation was wrong and the Chief of Staff did not have any private meetings with the person making those allegations.
He also said that: ‘the supply of 15 Hilux vehicles for the Presidency was an unlikely contract to have been awarded, as it did not exist anywhere in the 2016 and 2017 budgets.
‘Checking the appropriation for 2016 and 2017, that request is not even there. How could Abba Kyari have asked for money to award a contract that did not exist anywhere at all?’
He went further to say that: ‘it is difficult to make a case of N29 million bribery against an official who spurned a monthly payment of N200 million to his office, money for which he didn’t need to account to anyone.’
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