Nigerian Navy has debunked the reports that famous comedian Ahmed Gafar, known as Cute Abiola, is missing.
Gatekeepers News reports that the spokesperson of the force, Suleiman Dahun, through a statement made it known that the comedian is instead in naval custody.
The Instagram comedian, who is also naval personnel, was declared missing by his colleague, Mr Macaroni, on Monday.
Mr Macaroni took to the microblogging site, Twitter, where he announced that the comedian could not be seen nor contacted.
Mr Macaroni attached a series of WhatsApp messages he received to his tweet, which served as evidence.
The news sparked several reactions from Cute Abiola’s wife, colleagues, fans, and concerned Nigerians.
In the statement released about his arrest, Dahun said Cute Abiola violated the Armed Forces Social Media Policy.
He said the policy specifies the dos and don’ts of personnel as well as salient regulations with regards to their usage of social media on issues of official concerns.
Dahun also said that His superiors summoned cute Abiola from his leave to explain himself, but he called their bluff and exhausted his leave period.
The statement read: “The attention of the Nigerian Navy has been drawn to an online news story which claims that naval personnel, OSCOMP Abdugafar A, who incidentally is a popular comedian known as Cute Abiola, has gone missing.
“The Nigeria Army wishes to debunk the false news report currently trending online. OSCOMP Abdugafar is presently under custody in his unit for breaching the Armed forces social media policy and refusal to obey a particular order.
“The Nigerian Navy wishes to avail itself of this incident to remind its personnel to comply with provisions of the Armed forces social media policy in their usage of social media platforms. The policy, amongst others, is emplaced to protect the integrity of activities of the armed forces”.
This is not the first time the Instagram comedian would be arrested for violating the Nigerian Armed Forces Social Media Policy.
He was arrested in 2020 after his birthday pictures in a naval uniform went viral. He was later released on May 4, 2020.
