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Sirs,
Appreciation
On behalf of the Board, staff,
members and consultants of our organization-International Society for Civil
Liberties & the Rule of Law (Intersociety), we wish to
appreciate and thank you for your enormous assistance to us with respect to
publication of our advocacy news on your popular and celebrated sites. Most important
of all these is the maximum publicity given by your popular and celebrated news
sites to our four-part letter to Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan over our
campaign and insistence on ICC invitation to the country. A copy of the last
part (part four) is hereby attached.
No matter how rich a publishing
material is, it is worthless if it does not see the light of the day on media.
Such blackened rich material also enriches the empty mental faculties of lazy
intellectuals and armchair researchers and writers who easily and maliciously
credit it to themselves and their works without deeming it fit to give due
credit to its originators. This is one major advantage your enormous assistance
to us does to our numerous publishing materials.
On our own part, we realize the need
and importance of not feeding your popular and celebrated sites with
contagious, malicious, libelous, scandalous and facts lacking advocacy news
items. This explains why we bring all our professional experiences to bear.
Good a thing, our BOT Chairman is a Criminologist & Graduate of Security
Studies. This gives us further advantage in purifying our advocacy news
materials and making them libel, scandal, malice and virus free. Our legal and
non legal consultancy is also very active.
We share a view that it is better to
find writing pieces of 10 lawyers filled with libelous, scandalous and
malicious contents than to find one written by a single criminologist. Such a
criminologist is not only worthless but also deserves immediate intellectual
and certificate disrobing. We also have a track record of faultlessness in
most, if not all of our advocacy writings. This is because we are not “liars
who use passive voices”, but “truth tellers who use active voices”. We say the
truth and insist on it no matter how bitter or where the pendulum swells. We
are like a high court that concentrates its business on “ratio decidendi” and
discards “orbiter dictum/dicta”. We are sticklers of issue based social
development discussions and have no time for frivolities. We have always been
vindicated on all major issues we canvassed.
Again, we thank all of you. And we
celebrate your huge successes in online media industry. Through your newest ICT
voices, voices of the suppressed and oppressed have been re-awakened and heard.
You have struck a balance between the Southeast/South-south and Southwest media
dichotomy and facilitated a healthy competition between print, audio/audio
visual and online news industries. History of invention of ICT media in
Nigeria cannot be validly written without all of you. Nigerians celebrate all
of you for creating another space for tens of millions of Nigerians especially
after malicious and thieving politicians made an inroad into Nigeria’s leading
print and electronic media and hijacked it.
Today, columns, editorials and top
news on the country’s leading national dailies (print) are no longer what they
used to be. Some popular private TV and radio stations especially in Lagos and
Abuja have deviated and derailed because corruptly enriched politicians have
corrupted and hijacked them. They are now pegged for the highest bidders, yet
they have continued to preach accountability and transparency rested on morals.
We urge you not to relent a bit
because Nigerians are proud of all of you. They celebrate you day in day out.
As grassroots rights, democracy and security advocacy group, we are fully aware
that vulcanizers, wheel barrow pushers, “mama put” providers, Keke and Okada
riders and hawkers as well as traders now access and assess top news of the
moment through their cell phones wherever they are, all thanks to all of you.
They even share the news amongst themselves and make steady references to your
popular and celebrated sites.
Our writing all of you is like
giving you a feed back and letting you know how popular your news and your
sites are among millions of Nigeria. We promise to continue to create news for
your popular and celebrated sites. We will never let you and your celebrated
sites down.
We also wish to use this medium to strongly
condemn the ongoing attack by Nigerian military on the country’s print media.
By attacking the country’s newspapers over their dutiful coverage and reports
on Boko Haram terror campaign and counter-campaign, the Nigerian military has
further exposed itself and brought its name to international ridicule. Rather
than learning from its mistake of choosing to remain “a typewriter military
organization” in ICT age and warfare, it has further exposed itself by not
realizing that paper media has gone scientific.
If the soldiers of the Nigerian
military seize hard copies of the country’s newspapers, what about their online
copies? What about dozens of digital media outfits operating within and beyond
the shores of the country? We see the military’s callous and illiterate attack
on hard copies of the Nigerian newspapers as repetition of its gross mistake of
“using type writer military hardware to combat ICT Boko Haram terror”. It is
like a type writer police officer armed with AK-47 and asked to pursue an ICT
Boko Haram bomb detonator. The attack under reference is totally condemned. The
military has a serious case to answer over credible allegation of abdication of
its sworn duties that led to a number of civilian massacres in the northeast
States of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe.
Thank You Very Much.
Emeka
Umeagbalasi
Board
Chairman
+2348100755939
(text 24/7, calls 9.30am -4.pm, Mon.-Fri., office hours)
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