Police Probe Deleted Tweet On Lagos RRS Handle ‘Attacking’ David Hundeyin, Obidients

The Lagos State Police Command on Thursday said it had commenced an investigation into a now-deleted tweet shared on Twitter using the Rapid Response Squad handle.

The Rapid Response Squad (RRS), a unit of the Lagos State Police Command, deleted the tweet attacking Nigerian investigative journalist, David Hundeyin and Labour Party (LP) supporters popularly known as ‘Obidients’.

journalist had shared a tweet urging whistle-blowers not to contact him via Twitter DM as the microblogging platform is no longer safe.

Responding to the Tweet, the handler of RRS tackled David Hundeyin, saying he was supposedly acting like someone who was getting all his published information himself.

The handler further taunted Peter Obi supporters as ‘disobedients’ adding they are the people feeding the journalist with information.

The post reads: “You acted as if you were getting all info by yourself, Mr Research journalist. So its ask theses disobidients that feed you doctored stories. There’s nothing worth tracing you. You want to keep showing you are under threat to justify why you got exile opportunity why many dey find.”

Reacting to the post, “Hundeyin wrote: Interesting that the person handling the @rrslagos767 account just inadvertently revealed that there is police interest in my work, as if I didn’t know that already.”

Reacting to the now-deleted post, the Lagos State Police Command via its Twitter handle said, “The Lagos State Police Command has commenced investigation into the circumstances leading to this. “The post does not in any way represent the stance or view of the Command.”

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