{"id":15441,"date":"2017-08-09T19:20:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T19:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=15441"},"modified":"2017-08-09T19:20:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T19:20:22","slug":"anambra-church-massacre-bishop-accuses-media-of-false-allegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=15441","title":{"rendered":"ANAMBRA CHURCH MASSACRE: &#8220;BISHOP&#8221; ACCUSES MEDIA OF FALSE ALLEGATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Defamation and false allegations<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">My attention has been drawn to a social media campaign where it is alleged that I am \u00a0connected to the Ozubulu church killing over a drug problem.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">For the avoidance of any doubt I wish to inform the general public that I know nothing about the church killings and i have never been involved in drugs.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I have never been arrested or convicted anywhere in the world. My businesses are legitimate buinesses, duly registered. Apart from warehousing and wholesale of goods I am also a contractor involved in the construction of roads and \u00a0infrastructure in Nigeria.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It&#8217;s shameful that Nigerians and the media don&#8217;t verify any story before running with them.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=14000&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The handwork of those who are jealous of my success and who are determined to tarnish my image is \u00a0evident.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Church killings is an unprecedented evil that deserves full investigation to unmask the perpetrators.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">We await investigations and full police report of the church attack.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In the meantime I request all social media and media houses to retract my name from the defamatory stories linking me with the church killing.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Failure to do so and any further linking of my name with the church killings will force me to take legal action against the purveyors of the defamatory false story.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Aloysius Ikegwuonwu (aka Bishop)<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Ozubulu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15442\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Ozubulu-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Ozubulu-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Ozubulu.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defamation and false allegations My attention has been drawn to a social media campaign where it is alleged that I am \u00a0connected to the Ozubulu church killing over a drug problem. For the avoidance of any doubt I wish to inform the general public that I know nothing about the church killings and i have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[4029],"class_list":["post-15441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-aloysius-ikegwuonwu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Ozubulu.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-413","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15443,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15441\/revisions\/15443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}