The British Broadcasting Cooperation (BBC) Swahili, has confirmed that the story about a restaurant in Anambra State, South-East Nigeria, where human meat was allegedly served was a mistake.
According to Naij, the international media outfit apologises for publishing fake news. It said the story was false and unsuitable.
The BBC said it had already begun urgent inquiry to check what led to such publication and will take required steps to make sure the mistake does not happen again.
It said: “The story about the Nigerian restaurant which we published here frames a mistake and we apologise. It was incorrect and BBC published without the proper checks. We have removed the story and have launched an urgent investigation into how this happened.”
On its turn, Daily Mail, which also published the story about human meat restaurant also revealed that the article has been removed from its website.
It should be noted that the Anambra state police had earlier dismissed the rumours that, a certain restaurant has been serving their customer human meat. The police spokesman said the report was not true because it did not happen.
Meanwhile, the BBC published the report that, the police raided the restaurant, and found fresh human heads, still bleeding.
Nigerians in their reactions to the incident called the Igbos ‘human eaters’ and claimed that, there is evil is everywhere.
Meanwhile, this is not the first time foreign medias are making mistakes about their reportage on Nigeria.
People caught the moment from the CNN’s evening news when one of the most renowned news sources in the world wrote that Nairobi (Kenya), is situated in Nigeria.
