By Adegboyega Adeleye
Hafsat Abubakar, the 27-year-old woman arrested over the alleged creation and circulation of a forged document claiming that fintech company OPay was shutting down its operations, has broken her silence, saying she deleted the post and publicly apologised after the company flagged it as fake.
Abubakar spoke to journalists while being paraded at the Force Headquarters in Abuja on Thursday, saying she was arrested five days after deleting the post and apologising, following a petition by OPay.
She said, “When I saw the notice immediately after they made it, I deleted the post immediately and rendered an apology on the same day. They gave me an hour to take it down and apologise before 11:59pm on August 31, and I did. I took the post down around 8pm and made an apology before 11pm.
“After I apologised, about five days later, which was on September 4, I was arrested by the Nigeria Police at home. When I asked what my offence was, they said OPay had filed a petition against me and that they were also investigating the case, so I had to come to Abuja with them from Zaria, Kaduna State.”
