The Nigerian Navy announced that comedian and one of its personnel OSCOMP Abdulgafar A A, popularly know known as Cute Abiola is in their custody and not missing has earlier reported.
Navy spokesperson Commodore, Saluman Dahun in a statement on Wednesday said Abdulgafar is under detention for violating the Armed Forces of Nigeria social media policy.
He further said Cute Abiola of disobeyed “particular orders “given to him.
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The statement read, “The attention of the Nigerian Navy has been drawn to an online newstory which claims that a naval personnel, OSCOMP Abdulgafar AA, who incidentally is a popular comedian known as Cute Abiola, has gone missing.
“The Nigerian Navy wishes to categorically debunk this false news report currently trending online.
“OSCOMP Abdulgafar is currently under custody in his unit for breaching the Armed Forces Social Media Policy and refusal to obey particular orders. The Nigerian Navy wishes to avail itself this incident to remind its personnel to comply with the provisions of the Armed Forces Social Media Policy in their usage of social media platforms.
“The Policy, amongst others, is emplaced to protect their personal safety and security as well as the information integrity of the activities of the Armed Forces of Nigeria.”
Skit comedian, Debo Macaroni raised alarm of Cute Abiola’s reported missing on Instagram on Tuesday.
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