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.
In a statement, government said the President is not part of Facebook community and is not using the social media platform to communicate.
“The President has other routes through which she interacts with young people to share with them her passion, vision, and aspirations for the youth,” a statement said.
Government said the three Facebook accounts purported to be those of the President are fake.
The statement noted that they bear three different birth dates for the President “ which clearly demonstrates that they were not created by her.”
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.
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.
Her political People’s Party has however a Facebook group page and also its official website.
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