TEST- I have heard similar rumours and text messages/SMS in the past.......in year 2009, 2010 , 2011 respectively talking about poisoned "SUYA" roasted meat, Beans, Vegetables and more. Important questions to ask here is the message above clams the Nigerian police is responsible for it. that means the police as usual must have issued press release on the subject matter, if that is true then which media house or any other credible source has this "important information?? Nigerian television Authority NTA (to start with), National news papers? Other television houses? even the Nigerian police website does not have it. for crying out loud i have seen captions like " Family of 6 die after eating Amala and Ewedu" in THE PUNCH News paper, how come non of this rumours that fly round in text messages/SMS does not make it to any credible news source and only rely on " please quickly send to others" ??The text message/ SMS reads " Please stop sucking Orange the Nigerian Police have announced this morning that they have confirmed 13 people dead in Lagos and the Orange is spreading fast. please inform others, send this to all your Friends and family if you love them- NPF" JEEZ !! That was the text message being circulated and there might be others like it....... well it is possible to poison fruits but is this particular one correct information or just an HOAX and FALSE INFO for the consumption of poor and impressionable Nigerians?
VERDICT
This news is incorrect just like the false rumour of the killer telephone number .............It is a Hoax from somebody who knows Nigerians can believe anything even without proof or credible source, perhaps MTN telecommunication company is being too gracious with too many free text/SMS messages of recent and PRANKSTERS just can not resist the urge to spread their HOAX/ Falsehood through SMS....with MTN Nigeria's new SMS freebies.....i have seen many text messages ranging from MTN's celebrating their Birthday, Killer Telephone Numbers by ritualists (080200226655) and now Killer oranges all ending with please forward to others and get =N= 7500 free credit with the exception of the last one. Only God knows what next is will come up next week if MTN Nigeria continues to give out free TEXT messages. But thank God the MTN SMS Bonus will stop by August 20 hopefully all this pranks will stop till the next MTN Promo *LOL * could this be what the politicians/ leaders are using to enslave the populace. LIES, LIES and more LIES !!
Nigerians will believe anything........it is a pity, but then this kind of thing is not limited to Nigeria alone...it happens in Europe and United states most especially, but in the case of Nigeria it is worse!
Rumours like this spread like wildfire in Nigeria.Why all these rumours? Could it be a ploy to discourage the sale of oranges nationwide or maybe lies from some leaders to carry out their evil and nefarious schemes? Time will tell!
Oranges are grown in the south and consumed in the north. Not the other way round.
we Nigerian we like to accept and spread any RUMOURS come out.