Fake CNN reporter arrested in Bayelsa

The Chairman of the Nigerian Union of
Journalists (NUJ) in Bayelsa State, Comrade
Tare Akono, has apprehended and handed
over to the Department of State Service (DSS)
a 36years old man identified as Paul Yempe
over his false claim to be a Correspondent to
the Cable News Network (CNN) in the Niger
Delta region.
According to the SSS, the fake CNN reporter
was arrested with an Identification Card of
the Rivers State Broadcasting Corporation
known as Radio Rivers and a fake
Identification card of the CNN.
It was gathered that the fake journalist was
arrested in the office of the Commissioner
for Energy, Barr. Akio Francis last Thursday.
The arrest, it was gathered, was made
possible due to the coincidental presence of
the NUJ chairman,Tare Akono at the
Commissioner’s Office.
The suspect, according to a security source,
had allegedly swindled some of the state
officials