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Claims Content in Sachet was Coke
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As Netizens Spot Difference in Video Claim
- Safiu Kehinde
A nursing mother caught in a viral video feeding her baby with alcoholic drink has breaking her silence public outrage over the video.
NPO Reported that the lady was seen in the video with a sachet brand of Action Bitters alcoholic drink which she gave the five-month-old toddler.
The shared on her TikTok handle with the username preshbaby8483 had triggered reactions from netizens and activists who called for her arrest.
In reaction, the Nigerian Police Force in a statement issued on Monday disclosed ongoing search for the woman.
The Police had urged any member of the public and X user, who posted the video yesterday, with valuable information about the woman to contact the Force for her arrest.
Reacting to the development in a video on her TikTok handle on Tuesday, the nursing mother apologised to Nigerians for the video which she claimed to be a content.
She explained that the content of the sachet was Coca-Cola and not Action Bitters as perceived by the public.
“Good evening, everyone. Please o don’t be offended. It’s about the video I post about last week about Action Bitters. Please that thing is not Action Bitters.
“That thing was Coke. I poured Coke inside. I can’t give my daughter Action Bitters. Since I posted that video, people have been tagging me and dragging me up and down.” She said.
The lady attached a ‘how it started’ clip showing where she was pouring the beverage drink into the sachet.
“But to be sincere, it is not action bitters. That thing is coke. I poured coke inside. I even have the second video on my phone. It is not Action Bitters.
“My baby is just only five months. I can’t give her Action Bitters. I’m not that type of careless mother. I don’t even take it. I don’t drink it.
“Please to just clear the air, I poured coke inside the sachet, and I washed the sachet before I poured the coke inside. I’m just trying to create content, nothing else. It’s just content I’m trying to create.
“So, please you people should not be offended. Please forgive me. Please we are begging Nigerians to forgive us.” She said.
Also speaking in the video was her brother-in-law who confirmed that the drink was coke.
“Abeg this girl na small girl. Na my brother wife. Na just content we dey create. So, no vex. Na coke wey him pour inside Action Bitters.
“She no go ft give small pikin that. She wan kill am? Please make una no vex. For people wey dey post, na coke dey inside. Action Bitters is for men not children.” He said.
However, netizens have spotted differences in the viral video and the other video showing where she was pouring the coke into the sachet.
As seen in the viral video, the mother was putting on a pink shirt and trousers.
The other video tagged ‘how it started’ however showed her on black and white stripped trousers.
See video below