Controversial Nigerian blogger Kemi Olunloyo made a claim in a tweet earlier on Monday that she had a 20-year history with CNN. She claimed to have worked for the US-based popular cable station, Cable News Network (CNN), for two decades. She did this to scold her followers who doubted her credentials.
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In her tweet she wrote:
“Some of these fools following me have no idea I spent 20 years @cnn in five different capacities. They don’t even know that the CNN they watch here is not exact same as CNN USA”, Olunloyo wrote.
In reaction, Stephanie Busari, the Supervising Producer of Cable News Network (CNN) Africa responded with a tweet questioning her claims. She challenged Olunloyo to provide evidence for her claims.
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She tweeted:
“I have not seen any evidence of this work for CNN beyond a few rambling interviews for some of the shows in 2009. Please enlighten me @HNNAfrica on your 20-year history with CNN.”
She requested that Kemi Olunloyo provided evidence that she worked for CNN from 1994 till 2014.
She added,
However, Olunloyo, daughter of former Oyo state governor Omololu Olunloyo, did not receive this response in good terms. She took to Twitter to call out for the sack of Stephanie Busari. The blogger insisted that she must apologise to her for being unruly.
Kemi Olunloyo wrote;
“@CNNPR I am requesting an apology or REMOVAL of @stephaniebusari from the African bureau on my history at the Cable News Network since 1994. If contributors “rambled”, ppl like @AprilDRyan won’t be working @cnn today or poor content dominates.
“Busari was 17yrs in high school when I was 30yrs, approached by CNN Medical in DC while I was the Director of a satellite outpatient pharmacy @HopkinsMedicine in East Baltimore to do a RAVE drugs story. Her attempt to disgrace my work history in the eyes of Nigerians is disgraceful.
“As @camanpour said, we journalists are not supposed to take sides or be neutral. WE ARE SUPPOSED to come only for the truth. When viral ireporters, contributors, partners, p/t employees are ridiculed, CNN has no content. I expect a reply tweeted or sent to my DM. Thank you.”
The post garnered a lot of response from Twitter users. They pointed out how the blogger is known for her lies.
