Our attention has been drawn to the malicious and unprofessional reportage by the Africa Independent Television (AIT) and Nigeria Television Authority on its Network News, in which it tried to link the recent peaceful rally by the Academic Forum of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria demanding justice over the Zaria Quds Day gruesome killings, to the MOSSAD/CIA covert terror cells- Boko Haram and ISIS.
We view the unfortunate report by the
AIT and NTA as a clear violation of journalism profession and done with
insidious intent. This is because, the rally which took place at the premises
of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) was widely reported as a
civilized demand for justice and highly commended as the most civilized in the
Federal Capital in recent time. Rather than portray such a positive good
conduct, the AIT and NTA decide to equate it with the uncivilized terrorist
acts of some cannibals that is nowhere close to the cardinal objective of the
Islamic Movement in Nigeria. We are forced to believe that such action was a
continuation of the brutal killing of 34 members of the Islamic Movement, including
three biological children of Shaikh Ibraheem Zakzaky (H) by the Nigerian
soldiers, as well as the subsequent attempt to portray the Islamic Movement as
a terrorist organization by the Nigerian military. If not, how can a victim
turn villain? Are AIT and NTA against civilized and mature demand for justice?
It worthy of note that, the victims of the extra-judicial killings in Zaria on
July 25, 2014 were not all Muslims. Among them was a 68-year-old Christian
gentleman, Chief Julius Anyanwu, women and a 4 years old child. Just as we
press for justice over the killing of these innocent souls, we cannot let this
uncultured reportage by AIT and NTA go without redress.
We therefore condemn the report and
demand unreserved apology and withdrawal by AIT and NTA over the disgrace
caused, or we shall take every civilized action to seek redress against the
campaign of calumny and blackmail.
The long time initiated tragic killing
of innocent souls in Maiduguri, Yobe and several other states in northern part
of the country and Chibok abduction seem to have opened the door for
international scramble for Nigeria and its resources in the name of fighting
insurgency. Their imperial media mechanism showed the girls covered in veils
indicating that the Christians among them were forcefully Islamized. This look
well scripted and everything is going according to how they planned it. How
could 276 young girls have been abducted at once and be transported over 100
kilometers in a state where emergency rule is supposedly in-force at that time?
The claim by the Amnesty International about the authorities having advanced
warning and failing to foil the attack requires more than mere denials, it
calls for a full scale investigation. Frankly speaking, the government is not
sincere in its campaign of confronting the problem on the issue of insecurity;
no sensible person will ever trust Nigerian government because they did not do
anything to deserve the trust.
Government complicity in the insecurity problem
is now an open secret; many people have seen helicopters supplying some gun-men
food and ammunition in the wild. Where did the so-called “Boko-Haram” get the
wherewithal obtain and use helicopters. Moreover, there are widely circulated
videos of this so- called “Boko- Haram” leaders posing beside armoured vehicles
and proudly taking responsibilities for the atrocities in different areas in
the country. Where do the helicopters and armoured vehicles came from? What of
the audio clip now in circulation which depicts a soldier claiming to have seen
his military instructors among insurgents? This leaves us with no option but to
hypothesize that the insecurity is a false- flag aimed at preparing ground for
foreign occupation.
The most unfortunate and disheartening
of all is that AIT and NTA, rather than focusing on the state-sponsored
terrorism as mirror of the society, they also busied themselves with the
conspiracy of linking terrorism and terrorist acts to Islam. It is not a new
thing seeing some people in military uniform in video clips taking
responsibilities for murders, pillage, arson, kidnap and rape, and yet
shamelessly lie that their actions are Islamic. Undoubtedly, their shameless
acts are sponsored to link Islam with terrorism. Meanwhile government inability
to face these atrocities, squarely, despite controlling a large army and others
security units is enough to establish complicity. Ever since the emergence of
this administration, it has never hidden its romance with the illegitimate
state of Israel. As the Zionists slaughter innocent civilians in Gaza, Nigerian
security forces re-structured by the Zionists under the present government are
doing similar crime to millions of our citizens under the pretext of “
Boko-Haram”.
Silence on these official terrorism by
the media, AIT and NTA in particular, is throwing ethics to the pigs and
becoming official organ of the state in the current terrorism run and sponsored
by the Nigerian government.
Signed:
S.I Ahmad
Academic Forum of the Islamic Movement in
Nigeria
January
30, 2015
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