The Akwa Ibom State Government has confirmed that the Police are now investigating suspects connected with the cloning of Governor Umo Eno’s WhatsApp number. In a statement released on Wednesday, Ekerete Udon, the Press Secretary to the Governor, stated that “Law enforcement agents have been duly alerted and are on the trail of the perpetrators of this ignoble act.”
The statement explained that the state government’s attention has been drawn “to a carefully orchestrated fraudulent posts on some social media platforms, where some criminal elements have cloned the WhatsApp number of the Governor of Akwa Ibom State with the intent to defraud unsuspecting members of the public.
” The government has warned the general public that “any message appearing to solicit funds by these imposters should be totally discountenanced as they do not emanate from the Governor.”
