Ogun State government has debunked the video being circulated on some social media platforms that bandits have taken over Ogere-Remo forest in the state.
The video, claimed to have been recorded by drones, and which is 2 minutes 50 seconds, showed some men cooking on a fire in a bush.
But in a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Ogun State governor, Kunle Somorin, described the video as fake and not recorded in any forest in the State.
Somorin said the video was nothing but another ploy by enemies of progress to create a wrong impression that the state is unsafe. A fact check on the said video, according to the statement, was that of the General Service Unit(GSU) drone which captured armed cattle rustlers hiding in thicket with stolen livestock on April 4 in Kenya, East Africa and the bandits who were seen making breakfast tried to shoot down the drone when they noticed it was recording them.
He, however, wondered how some persons whose stock-in-trade is spreading fake news and raise false alarm, imploring the people to see the video as another feeble attempt to smear the good records of Governor Abiodun-led administration while noting that Ogun, under the leadership of Governor Dapo Abiodun, has not only been adjudged as the safest state to live in, but most serene to conduct businesses without fear.