{{Malawi President Joyce Banda has distanced herself from Facebook accounts bearing her names and images and asked the public to ignore and treat them as mischievous.}}<\/p>\n
In a statement, government said the President is not part of Facebook community and is not using the social media platform to communicate.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe President has other routes through which she interacts with young people to share with them her passion, vision, and aspirations for the youth,\u201d a statement said.<\/p>\n
Government said the three Facebook accounts purported to be those of the President are fake. <\/p>\n
The statement noted that they bear three different birth dates for the President \u201c which clearly demonstrates that they were not created by her.\u201d<\/p>\n
For those who may have poked or sent a message to Joyce Banda accounts on Facebook thinking they were hitting on the Malawi leader were wrong because she is not part of the Facebook community.<\/p>\n
But the Malawi leader is not hitting the keyboard to sign-up a Facebook account though she is technologically savvy leader who follows social networking services and micro-blogging sites.<\/p>\n
Her political People\u2019s Party has however a Facebook group page and also its official website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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