Nigerians have taken to Twitter to pillory the Kano State House of Assembly Adhoc Committee investigating allegations of bribery against the State Governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje.
The committee was lambasted for the choice of words deployed in its letter requesting Jaafar Jaafar, the publisher of Daily Nigerian, which first published the bribery videos, to appear before it.
A copy of the letter was posted on Twitter by socio-political commentator, Gimba Kakanda.
The letter contained grammatical howlers such as “video cliffs” instead of video clips, “investigatory hearing” instead of investigative hearing among others.
The letter dated October 18, 2018, was unsigned.
See letter:
Kakanda said, “This poorly-worded letter requesting (sorry, “requiring”) Jaafar Jaafar’s presence at an “investigatory hearing” of the Kano State House of Assembly is an embarrassing indictment of those tasked with managing our affairs. Been long I felt this embarrassed on someone’s behalf!”
Read reactions monitored on Twitter:
Video cliffs 🧟 pic.twitter.com/6eJmG1SCWa
— Eze Mbanaso MD (@Dorfbewohner01) October 19, 2018
This is sad. Very sad.
We mean as big as Kano is, we cannot find legislators, PAs and secretaries that can type (not to talk of speak) good English.
They should have kuku typed it in Hausa.
With this tone, I doubt if there's any political will to impeach the babariga thief.
— Dammie M.D 💎 (@drdammie) October 19, 2018
One thing that I learnt over the years is never attend any security/government investigative function on Fridays. If you naively go, be rest assured you will spend your weekend in cell under police custody.
— Malam Sabiu Zaranda (@Binzaranda) October 19, 2018
Tell them to push the governor off that "cliff" with the videos already! 🙈
— AsQ 🇳🇬🇳🇬 (@AsQTweets) October 19, 2018
"Video cliffs". 🙈🙈😂 pic.twitter.com/NLti5kK10a
— Uche Jegbefume (@jaustinuche) October 19, 2018
The letter was typed with accent
— Legal Tycoon (@Counsel_TAO) October 19, 2018
I hope no one falls off the video cliffs…
— Normalize Entanglements 🕸 (@ICE_MD) October 19, 2018
Afi cliff nah, cliffu kor, Clifford Orji ni
— Monitoring Body 🏐 (@monytora) October 19, 2018
The grammar alone can push one of the cliff. The date was wrong too. Thursday will be 25th, not 26th.
— Odenigbo (@Jah_Nedu) October 19, 2018
I'm unable to can 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
— Naomi Campbell with LegWork (@reizqah) October 19, 2018
This is the result when we jettisoned merit for quota or political considerations. Even if they are deficient, they have staff in the Assembly that are civil servants. This error is regrettable
— morufyusuf (@offalomowa) October 19, 2018
When I saw 'video cliff' before the end of the first sentence I fainted. Gosh!
— Lucky Oghuvwu (@LOghuvwu) October 19, 2018