ACNPN Disclaim Prince Orhomunokpaye SSA to Governor Oborewori

The attention of the Association Of Community Newspapers Publishers,
ACNPN, was recently drawn to some visitations by the SSA (Senior
Special Assistant) to the Delta State Governor on Community
Newspapers, Mr. Prince Orhomokpaye, to some prominent Public Office
holders and distinguished Deltans, during which he was accompanied by
certain persons mischievously and deceitfully described as “Publishers
of Community Newspapers”.
On closer scrutiny of the identities of the members of his delegation, we
discovered to our chagrin, that these persons so described as
“Publishers of Community Newspapers” were at best, known Journalists
and Reporters, writing for some mid-level Online News portals and
platforms which are neither affiliated to nor registered as Community
Newspapers and therefore, have no ties with ACNPN whatsoever.
Members of ACNPN, disturbed by this dubious activity of the SSA to the
State Governor (Community Newspapers), Mr. Prince Orhomokpaye
and having taken due cognizance of the immediate and wider
implications of impersonating the Association in his visits, arrived at the
following resolutions:

1. While we do not begrudge Mr. Orhomokpaye his right to undertake any
visitation in his capacity as SSA to the Governor on Community
Newspapers, we however seriously frown at and take great exception to
his fraudulent action of visiting innocent public office holders and
prominent citizens in the state, with a delegation masquerading as
Community Newspapers Publishers and impersonating ACNPN, with
the objective and motive of attaching some credibility to his delegation
and subsequently exhorting huge financial largess and pecuniary
gratification from his unsuspecting hosts, who have severally fallen for
this fraudulent scam.
2. We want to categorically state that as the substantive and duly
recognized umbrella body of Community Newspapers Publishers in the
State, the ACNPN has never been informed or invited by any official

correspondence from the SSA, Mr. Orhomokpaye, to either join him or
participate in any of his courtesy visits. We therefore strongly
dissociate the ACNPN from his fraudulent activities and state clearly
for the avoidance of doubt, that the persons in his delegation to such
visits are neither publishers of any community newspapers in the
state, nor members of the ACNPN, Delta state chapter.
3. This DISCLAIMER is therefore to caution Mr. Prince Orhomokpaye to
desist forthwith from the fraudulent penchant of impersonating and
associating Delta Community Newspapers Publishers in whatever
subsequent courtesy visits he intends to embark on with the obvious
intent to achieve some quick financial gains. He is seriously warned to
stop tarnishing the image and credibility of ACNPN in the state with such
visits.
We also urge his next unsuspecting hosts to formally demand, by way of
appropriate and mandatory introductions, the proper designations in the
ACNPN leadership, of those in Mr. Orhomokpaye’s delegation claiming
to be Community Newspapers Publishers,in order to establish the
authenticity of their claims.
Please be informed that the ACNPN will not be part of any courtesy visit
without the physical presence of it’s state Chairman, or at least, a couple
of members of it’s Executive Council, to properly represent the umbrella
body of Community Newspapers Publishers in the state in such an
official engagement.
We hereby urge top public and political office holders, elected or
appointed, as well as other distinguished Deltans, who will be the next
likely targets, to beware of hosting or entertaining any group claiming
to be Community Newspapers Publishers.
The SSA to the Governor, Mr. Prince Orhomokpaye, can embark on
such visits in his official capacity as an appointee of the state
government, but should desist henceforth, from parading himself with
persons masquerading as and impersonating Community Newspapers
Publishers in his fraudulent and nefarious escapades.