Festus Keyamo (SAN), the Director of Strategic Communications of the Buhari 2019 Campaign Organisation, has been condemned on Twitter after he posted a photo of a tree growing on a rail track in Gaza, in the disputed area between Israel and Palestine, and passed it off as Nigeria.

He captioned the photo:

‘This is how trees grew in-between rail tracks between 1999 and 2015. Those were the years of ‘Initiation and Started’, when they swallowed all the money but never completed. Now, this is the ‘Completion Era’ as the tracks are beginning to roar back to life.’

But some Twitter users decided to do a Google image search and discovered that the photo was first posted online on October 5 by a Chadi Faraj in Gaza and retweeted by A Paulikevich on October 6. Many commentators then attacked Keyamo for lying and attempting to deceive Nigerians.


See more:

https://zenithnaija.com/keyamos-alleged-lies-revealed-after-posting-a-tree-growing-on-a-rail-track/

cc: lalasticlala dominique Mynd44

If you're not grounded in lies u can't be an APC member or supporter
You just have to lie say anything
Like Armed robbers came to your house and stole your swimming pool
Or
I have all the educational qualifications, but someone collected them and went to heaven and he said he'll bring it back

While I am not trying to defend Keyamo (which is rather ironic considering the fact that he is a SAN) but the statement never said the picture was that of a rail track in Nigeria.

He only used it to make a point ( which is undeniably true) that there was little or no improvement in our rail system since 1999. I think most people who are criticizing him have a problem challenging this claim .

The rail system was dead in Nigeria, I don't need pictures from Keyamo to convince me of what I see everyday.

OBIdiently atikulating