{"id":23108,"date":"2025-06-11T12:28:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T11:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=23108"},"modified":"2025-10-20T16:55:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T15:55:51","slug":"facebook-page-deletes-vdms-efcc-mugshot-after-dubawas-fact-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/facebook-page-deletes-vdms-efcc-mugshot-after-dubawas-fact-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook page deletes VDM\u2019s EFCC mugshot after DUBAWA\u2019s fact check"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jerry Wife TV<\/a>, a Facebook blog, has removed a post containing a viral EFCC mugshot of Martins Otse, also known as VeryDarkMan (VDM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission\u2019s arrest of VDM on May 2, 2025, Facebook blogs like Jerry Wife TV began to circulate a mugshot of VDM posing with an arrest placard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The placard showed his name, the alleged charges against him, and a date. According to the placard, VDM was arrested for \u201cAlleged case of cyberstalking and ML.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screenshot of the mugshot as posted by Jerry Wife TV. Photo source: Facebook.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

DUBAWA verified and confirmed<\/a> that this mugshot was doctored. Weeks after the publication, we discovered that the link to the post is no longer accessible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We visited the page and manually searched previous posts, but could no longer find it. We realised Jerry Wife TV had pulled down the entire content; however, we have it archived here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A screenshot showing after Jerry Wife TV pulled down the post.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Recently, Rufai Oseni, a news anchor and TV presenter at Arise Television, also corrected his tweet<\/a> after reading DUBAWA\u2019s fact check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jerry Wife TV, a Facebook blog, has removed a post containing a viral EFCC mugshot of Martins Otse, also known as VeryDarkMan (VDM). Following the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission\u2019s arrest of VDM on May 2, 2025, Facebook blogs like Jerry Wife TV began to circulate a mugshot of VDM posing with an arrest placard.  The placard showed his name, the alleged charges against him, and a date. According to the placard, VDM was arrested for \u201cAlleged case of cyberstalking and ML.\u201d DUBAWA verified and confirmed that this mugshot was doctored. Weeks after the publication, we discovered that the link to the post is no longer accessible.  We visited the page and manually searched previous posts, but could no longer find it. We realised Jerry Wife TV had pulled down the entire content; however, we have it archived here. Recently, Rufai Oseni, a news anchor and TV presenter at Arise Television, also corrected his tweet after reading DUBAWA\u2019s fact check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"hannibal_claim_source":"","hannibal_source_label":"","hannibal_card_color":"blue","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"default","_twitter_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type":"default","_pinterest_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"default","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_bluesky_share_type":"","_mastodon_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[1571,3812,3815,123],"tags":[4512],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[3009],"class_list":["post-23108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fact-check","category-headline","category-homepage","category-mainstream","tag-impact"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-60I","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":3009,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"sunday-awosoro","display_name":"Sunday Awosoro","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/vdm-efcc.png?fit=1200%2C720&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23110,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23108\/revisions\/23110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23108"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=23108"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=23108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}