FAKE: Clinton Njie has not announced his resignation from Cameroon National Football team
By Ngombet Claudia
A blog page on Facebook called “Le Dehors 237”, with about 10k followers posted an article on Monday 24 January 2024, that Clinton Njie, a Cameroonian footballer playing for the men’s senior national football team, has announced his resignation from international football. This information is fake by the time we completed our verification.
Context
Clinton Njie is a Cameroonian Footballer who plays for the Cameroon National football team, The Indomitable Lions. On the eve of the AFCON2023 last group C qualification match between Cameroon and Gambia, information about Njie’s resignation from the national football team of Cameroon circulated on Facebook and WhatsApp. Specifically, the page named “Le Dehors 237”, with about 10k followers published an article that said that Clinton Njie announced his resignation from the Cameroon national football team, citing Super Sports as source.
Verification
To check the authenticity of this information, we visited the Facebook page of Super Sports https://www.facebook.com/SuperSportFootball?mibextid=ZbWKwL as stated by Le Dehors 237, but we did not find this information there nor on other official news and football sites.
To further check the veracity of the claim surrounding Clinton Njie’s resignation, we got into contact with Njie’s PRO, René Katche, who said that the claim is fake. Furthermore, it was also said that Njie was approached and insulted by the President of the Cameroon Football Federation, Samuel Eto’o, who allegedly said Njie should go and olay in Bamenda. This too is fake!
Rene Katche equally debunked the claim of Njie’s resignation on his personal Facebook account.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/FF18H5my9twhSWzg/?mibextid=qi2Omg
Verdict
After verification of the claims as to whether Clinton Njie has announced his resignation from the Cameroon National football team, with his PRO’s confirmation that Njie has not announced his resignation, we can assert with certainty that the information is fake.
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