It has come to the notice of the leadership of Revive Africa Initiative, the series of campaigns of calumny, michievous character assassination and fake news being peddled against our Chairman Board of Trustees, Dr. Okechukwu Okonta.
Our chairman has nothing to hide, he is a well school and well mannered gentle man who has obtained his Phd since twelve years ago from the Ebonyi state University Abakiliki, his records are there in the Institution and anyone is free to go and verify the facts.
These Facebook fellas who petitioned Dr. Okonta were aware that the Institution set up an investigative panel and exonorated Dr. Okonta after verifying the authenticity of his result, but resulted to campaign of Calumny and character defamation, contracting Sahara reporter to do the dirty job gave a non existing name Obi Ifeanyi as the petitioner.
SaharaReporters acting unprofessionally failed to investigate the matter or visit the school where Dr. Okonta obtained his Phd went the way of yellow journalism to publish unverified falsehoods.
The author was lucky not to put his name in the article, if not he would have been cooling off in jail by now for character defamation.
If the peddlers of this falsehood are sure of their facts, we dare them to come our with their real names so that they can defend it in the court of law.
While we urge the public to disregard the speculations of the ditractors as fake news with not iota of truth, we wish to caution Sahara reporter news blog against fake news and yellow journalism.
Signed
Amb. Ugagaoghene Ogheneyole
Director General
Revive Africa Initiative