A viral post made the rounds of social media 3 days ago that 100 trucks conveying over 1.5 million Chadians arrived Nigeria through Kaduna has been subjected to a scientific verification.
The post also claimed that the aliens were arrested ahead of the presidential elections.
On Thursday, Charles Oputa, also known as Charly Boy shared the post via his verified Instagram handle, @AreaFada1, to his 192k followers and another whooping 207k Twitter followers.
In the post, the popular entertainer and septuagenarian claimed that former President Olusegun Obasanjo had intercepted 1 million Chadians from entering Nigeria to Kaduna to vote.
He added that the Chadians had permanent voters card (PVC) and would be voting for the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Charly Boy said, “Obasanjo Blocked 100 Trucks Containers Carrying Nearly 1Million Chadians From Entering Nigeria To Kaduna To Vote APC,” the post reads.
“Obasanjo received a call from a junior immigration officer (name withheld) that unknown 100 trucks carrying over 1 million Chadians got access to the Nigeria border and were heading to Kaduna.
“Obasanjo responded immediately around 2 pm in the afternoon, Obasanjo called the immigration boss but no response from him, Obasanjo asked his personal security officials to block all the roads leading to Kaduna and finally, the trucks were captured.
“The trucks with no plate number have nearly 1 million Chadians all with Nigeria PVC when they were interrogated, they pretend not to hear English, Obasanjo ordered that the PVC be collected and destroyed immediately.
“Chad President was phoned immediately by Obasanjo and he denied knowing about such incidents, since there was no place to keep such a multitude of people, the trucks were ordered to turn back to Chad.”
Within hours, on Instagram, the post attracted over 9,925 likes and 1,635 comments as at the time of this report.
Various news platforms and blogs also shared the post.
Investigation:
Nigeria is bordered to the east by Cameroon and Chad while the west is bound by Benin. Niger is to the north of Nigeria while the northeast of Nigeria is bordered by Lake Chad, according to World Atlas.
The border between Nigeria and Chad is the shortest, which runs for a much shorter 54 miles as it is easier linked to Borno state.
Chad, known to have a population of about 17.18 million people, shares a friendly tie with Nigeria.
According to the claim,100 trucks were filled with nearly a million Chadians. Doing the calculations, this could mean about 10,000 persons occupied each truck.
From the pictures posted alongside the Instagram post, the size of the truck looks to lack a capacity of a carriage of 200 persons, not to mention 10,000.
TheCable also subjected one of the pictures to Google reverse image search which showed that the image is old. The picture has been existing online far back as since 2020.
To confirm the arrest, TheCable contacted Kaduna’s police command. Mohammad Jalige, the spokesperson of the command, denied the incident.
Result of the investigation:
He said the post was false as the police would have released an official statement in that regard.
“This is not true. We are not aware of anything like that. It doesn’t even make sense. The last time 15 people were arrested, it was all over the news not to talk of 1 million, ” he said.
The viral post by the popular entertainer, Charly Boy is false.