The Bauchi state House of Assembly has debunked a report published by Sahara Reporters, an online newspaper that Speaker of the Bauchi State House of Assembly Rt. Hon. Abubakar Y Suleiman has alongside the Senate President and federal lawmakers received N-power recruitment slots from Minister of Disaster Management, Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouk as fake.
The Speaker wondered how Sahara Reporters, supposedly a professional media platform, with more than three million followers, will publish unverified, fictitious and unfounded information to mislead its readers.
A simple inquiry will have confirmed the Medium that the printed application forms it used as evidence of the said allocation are data collection forms printed by the Speaker to ease data entry at free N-power Online Application Centres he provided in his Ningi Central Constituency, to increase the chance of his constituents to get enrolled into the programme.
In a statement released by the spokeperson Bauchi state House of Assembly Abdul Burra, urged the public to disregard any report or information that Speaker Abubakar Suleiman got N-power recruitment slots.
Speaker Abubakar Suleiman is one of the readers of Sahara Reporters for many years, hoped that the Medium will do better by desisting from publication of fake and unsubstantiated information and imbibing the ethics of journalism which include being factual, balance and objective.
The Speaker while commending President Muhammadu Buhari for the initiative, urged youths in his Ningi Central Constituency to rush to the three free N-power Application Centres he provided to apply for the programme which according to him will ameliorate the current economic hardship and reduce joblessness among youths.
