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| Original photo: Chijioke and friends @ITREALMS |
A serving member of the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC),
Oraeki Chijioke, has cried out over the wrong use of his picture in the Nigerian
media since the death of late Precious Owolabi, reports ITREALMS.
He declared that “I am not demised but alive.”
Chijioke who is currently serving in Agbara, Ogun State, told ITREALMS, he has been inundated with calls from relatives and friends over the
wrong picture usage.
“For this, I have had to deal with streams of calls coming in
from the early hours of Tuesday, 22nd July, 2019 to this moment to be sure it
was a misplaced image identity,” he lamented.
According to him, “I commiserate with the family of the late
Corp member (Precious Owolabi) incidentally, I have discovered that my picture is
being used instead by some media houses."
Chijioke explained that he noticed that his photo was cropped
off a group picture with some two other friends.
This, he said, was initially on Instablog9ja (@instablog9ja) and has
since escalated even though the initial users were contacted and had since
stepped down the material.
The latest, he said was that of The Nation Newspapers on July 26 and 28, 2019 and The Punch of 28.
“I will appreciate an apology, and retraction in requisite
measure that the picture was used as soon as possible, both offline and online.
Also, I will appreciate if editors of concerned media houses could review their
posts and publications by editing out my picture and better still bring it down
when such update is made soonest,” he appealed in a letter to the President,
Nigeria Guild of Editors.
Uj. N. Dominic/Editor
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