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The Committee for the Protection
of Peoples Mandate (CPPM) received with shock, sadness, disbelief and
anger this evening, the reported unconstitutional, crude and irresponsible siege by security agents on
The Nation Newspapers’ premises and the arrest of some its staff.
Since the advent of
this democratic train, the Nigerian state have become the theatre of the absurd
and our intelligence have been daily assaulted by the irresponsible and
unresponsive ruling political class who have treated us to all sorts of
obscenities. Our ruling elites have learnt nothing about the ethos of good
governance in this modern age but are rather behaving like the appendages of
our military “mis-rulers” of the past.
President Jonathan
must be told the home truth that since the advent of his administration; it has
been tales of economic, social and political pain for the Nigerian people. His
unfocussed and unserious government have not been alive to its responsibility in terms
of governance despite the goodwill it enjoyed at inauguration but which has
been frittered away by obscene conducts and comments.
Not even during the
military misrule did we witness this culture of unconstitutionality and
impunity that the Nigerian state has become under the Jonathan Presidency. The
Nigerian state today lies comatose with the absolute collapse of the state as
epitomized in failures in all facets of life.
Therefore, one wonders why our President and Commander-in-Chief of the armed
forces who with all the Powers at his disposal ran tails between his legs from
the threat of Boko Haram and MEND to celebrate unprecedented, the Country’s
independence in his bedroom in Aso Rock as if it was his personal birthday
rather than in the public square can be bold enough to embark on this show of
shame.
We are also not
surprised that our security agencies that are daily being mowed down by the
contradictions of the Nigerian state can continue to be so irresponsible as to
allow themselves to be used once again against the people and the constitution
as usual by the powers that be. We admonish them to take a cue from their
counterparts in other reasonable parts of the world who have always sided with
the people and the constitution.
We are hereby
calling on the government of President Jonathan to immediately call its goons
to order by ordering their withdrawal from the premises of the law abiding News
media and the immediate release without payment of the arrested journalists.
We are demanding a
public apology to the management and staff of The Nation Newspapers in particular
and to the Nigerian people in general as well as the dismissal from service of
the officers and men involved in this show of shame.
Comrade Nelson Ekujumi,
Executive Chairman.
