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Any person and\/or corporate body that allows himself or herself and \/or facilities to be used in executing\/ propagating the proposed programme in Ekiti State will be prosecuted before the appropriate court and dealt with according to the law,\u201d Apata added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ekiti State Government said on Thursday that perpetrators and propagators of kiss-a-thon, a planned kissing marathon targeted at setting a Guinness World Record, billed to start in the state on Friday risked three years imprisonment. 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