Mbete doesn't recognise these tweets - speaker spoofed on Twitter
The Office of the Speaker of the National Assembly says it has noted with grave concern fictitious twitter accounts impersonating Speaker Baleka Mbete. Speaker to consider request for retired judges to probe Zuma’s conductThe fake accounts are: @HonSpeakerMbete and @Baleke_Mbete. Mbete’s hometown names new ward after herHow can one really expect the MP's to go to a public gym? That is ridiculous. Just the local Virgin? No. — BalekaMbetė (@HonSpeakerMbete) February 23, 2015BalekeI am a member of the #ANC before i am a Speaker of Parliament. — BalekaMbete (@Baleke_Mbete) April 12, 2016Mbete“Those behind these bogus accounts are intent on deceiving the public by regularly posting disturbing posts purporting to be those of the Speaker. “We urge the public and the media to ignore all postings from these accounts‚” the Speaker’s office said. It said Parliament had reported all these accounts to Twitter and will be consulting on possible legal avenues against the perpetrators. The Speaker’s official twitter account is @MbeteBaleka.Why are some Media houses reporting on statements made by a parody account? @Radio702@ewnupdates this is my official acc.— Baleka Mbete (@MbeteBaleka) April 2, 2016Mbete..
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