The Chairman, Ido local government of Oyo state, Professor Joseph Adeniyi Olowofela, in company of the police, SSS and members of the Defence Corp on Sunday recovered the flying object which fell on the roof of a resident of Awotan in the local government.
The Chairman described a media report that an object crashed into the home of a resident as very unfortunate and misleading.
Prof Olowofela also frowned at the report and it's writers intention, saying there was nothing like a crash as reported, and that it was untrue that the US used the object as a spy .
“What happened was that a man was playing with a toy with his son and the toy got lost only to be discovered by a neighbour and instead of searching for the owner of the toy, the neighbour kept it in his home for a week . And the next thing was to read on a newspaper that a spy object lost control and crashed into a resident home”, he said.
The owner of the kite- like object, Sunday Folayan, an Electronic engineer and the Vice President Nigeria Internet Registration Association, also expressed shock at the reported crash.
Folayan, who is also into orbit, is the owner of Skynet , a service provider company based in Ibadan.
Folayan accompanied the Chairman, top local government officials, the police, SSS and other security men to recover the toy on Sunday.
Folayan who claimed to have produced many similar toys for his son in the past explained that he was playing with his son with the battery propelled toy when it got missing and all effort to retrieve it failed last week Sunday.
He gave a vivid description of the toy which he produced for his son “The weight of the toy is 0.8 kilogram with the shape of an i-pad . It cannot run more than 15 minutes . It is not solar panelled, but uses battery and a remote control .”
The chairman charged media men to do more of investigative journalism,rather than speculative reporting .
He stated that the report was capable of causing strained relations between Nigeria and the US government.
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