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Presidential Directive: Police Detain Four LEADERSHIP Staff by fkaz(m): 6:24pm On Apr 08, 2013 |
Four members of staff of LEADERSHIP Newspapers Group are being detained at the Police headquarters in Abuja over a recent exclusive story on a “presidential directive” targeting the opposition and containing plans to raise petrol prices, among other things. http://www.leadership.ng/nga/articles/51677/2013/04/08/presidential_directive_police_detain_four_leadership_staff.html |
Re: Presidential Directive: Police Detain Four LEADERSHIP Staff by Adurangba(f): 6:36pm On Apr 08, 2013 |
Good for them. 1 Like |
Re: Presidential Directive: Police Detain Four LEADERSHIP Staff by Nobody: 6:41pm On Apr 08, 2013 |
This has got to show that GEJ administration has lost confidence in itself and is now employing intimidation and oppression tactics to summount any oposition it might face. I see GEJ politically humiliated in the next general election come 2015 24 Likes |
Re: Presidential Directive: Police Detain Four LEADERSHIP Staff by Adurangba(f): 6:45pm On Apr 08, 2013 |
Vision2017: This has got to show that GEJ administration has lost confidence in itself and is now employing intimidation and oppression tactics to summount any oposition it might face. I see GEJ politically humiliated in the next general election come 2015 So the government should keep quiet when journalists falsify state papers? 13 Likes |
Re: Presidential Directive: Police Detain Four LEADERSHIP Staff by iykak47: 6:45pm On Apr 08, 2013 |
Vision2017: This has got to show that GEJ administration has lost confidence in itself and is now employing intimidation and oppression tactics to summount any oposition it might face. I see GEJ politically humiliated in the next general election come 2015Who will defeat Oga Jona? Make i hear word joo 2 Likes |
Re: Presidential Directive: Police Detain Four LEADERSHIP Staff by Nobody: 6:51pm On Apr 08, 2013 |
Tony Amoekedo and Chibuzor Ukaibe were asked to write a statement, which they did. They were then asked to disclose the source of the bromide published with the article. But the news editor replied that it is against the ethics of the profession to do so. Didn't Abati state that the directive in question was borne of an overactive imagination? Rather than chasing shadows - when even the casual observer knows there are several moles in the Presidency - why not simply go ahead and charge the reporters to court if you feel an act of sedition has been committed. 9 Likes |
Re: Presidential Directive: Police Detain Four LEADERSHIP Staff by OsunOriginal: 7:12pm On Apr 08, 2013 |
The end of GEJ's government is imminent... 3 Likes |
Re: Presidential Directive: Police Detain Four LEADERSHIP Staff by koruji(m): 7:19pm On Apr 08, 2013 |
If this were a military regime u could be excused. Yesterday, Amaechi said we are moving towards dictatorship in Nigereia. Today GEJ has police arresting journalists, and this is what comes out of your mouth? GEJ knows he wrote those memos - his confusion is how the journalists laid their hands on it!!! Adura_ngba: Good for them. 6 Likes |
Re: Presidential Directive: Police Detain Four LEADERSHIP Staff by Nobody: 7:49pm On Apr 08, 2013 |
The Presidency has sunk to a new low by sanctioning the gestapo treatment being meted out here.
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Re: Presidential Directive: Police Detain Four LEADERSHIP Staff by Nobody: 8:53pm On Apr 08, 2013 |
Adura_ngba: What was falsified in that report if I may ask? Secondly, shouldn't your so called President approach a competent court of jurisdiction if at all he felt some group of persons or orgainzation as the case may be want to assasinate his goodwill image? Every normal and right thinking person welcomes constructive criticisms so they could grow. It might also interest you to know that it was relayed sometime last week in the electronic media that some groups of unscrupulous individuals openly adduced they were paid by the ruling party to file application at the INEC office with same acronym- 'APC' solely to cause cog in the wheel of progress to the emerging, gigantic, powerful, purposeful and dynamic opposition party(APC) that will wrestle power from this power-drunk and corruption-infected ruling party(PDP). It is on record and I stand to be challenged that till date, the national publicity secretary of the PDP, Cheif Olisa Metuh has not denied the allegation nor any of the party hierachy has done so. So what are you saying? Anybody who means well for this nation will join the bandwagon and we shall together send PDP not just out of the seat of power but to oblivion. 2 Likes |
Re: Presidential Directive: Police Detain Four LEADERSHIP Staff by jmaine: 9:14pm On Apr 08, 2013 |
Highlighting the ever insatiable and confused nature of Nigerians . .I present to you a previous thread where people dared the Govt to take action if they were truly sure it was fake . . . https://www.nairaland.com/1245518/outrage-trails-presidential-directive-tinubu Now the Govt takes this up and the usual insidious nature of some Nigerians, who simply love to complain to no where are putting up a good show here . . . 2 Likes |
Re: Presidential Directive: Police Detain Four LEADERSHIP Staff by takedat(m): 9:24pm On Apr 08, 2013 |
Where was the Nigerian police before Maina absconded? If they are sure the journalists have committed an infraction contrary to the law, they should institute legal action against them instead of this unlawful detention. Journalists cannot be compelled to disclose their source to the police, the court should decide! |
Re: Presidential Directive: Police Detain Four LEADERSHIP Staff by Nobody: 9:35pm On Apr 08, 2013 |
jmaine: Highlighting the ever insatiable and confused nature of Nigerians . .I present to you a previous thread where people dared the Govt to take action if they were truly sure it was fake . . . Get it right, the objective commentators who have expressed an opinion on this thread have only asked for adherence to the to the rule of law - and nothing more. I know you would rather have these journos locked away in some gulag, where they can be subjected to repeated episodes of water-boarding, but we are still operating in a democracy. |
Re: Presidential Directive: Police Detain Four LEADERSHIP Staff by Goddex: 9:54pm On Apr 08, 2013 |
GEJ is too tolerating, that is why these guys in the press keep chunning out lies to the public. They dared not tried this rubbish with Obj. Simple questions to leadership newspaper: 1) produce the hardcopy of the bromide - the hardcopy may not even be there. What was published on the paper was mere graphic work that was poorly done and by an amateur. 2) State the source - simple truth, the document was forged and there is no source anywhere. I think these guys should be dealt with severely to serve as eye opener to those guys in Punch, Nation etc 10 Likes |
Re: Presidential Directive: Police Detain Four LEADERSHIP Staff by redsun(m): 9:56pm On Apr 08, 2013 |
It is just same as bulldozing the poor with their properties,like fashola aka raji rasaki.Suppressions that everyday nigerians suffers everyday.The law court in nigeria can detain poor citizens indefinitely for trumped-up charges just because the complainant is dubiously rich a enough to bribe them. Worse of all,they call their system democrazy. |
Re: Presidential Directive: Police Detain Four LEADERSHIP Staff by Maxymilliano(m): 11:12pm On Apr 08, 2013 |
Very funny of Azu and his staff crew to play the victim, like I postulated earlier on similar thread, where there right end is where another's right start. Freedom of speech does not mean shouting fire! Fire! where there is none. Some of us claim to know what we don't know in this country. What was published by Leadership News amounts to sedition; incitement of the public against the president and the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. We shouldn't because of our myopic political ambitions or for the interest of a greedy few do things that will cause havoc in this country! Gbenga Aruleba of AIT and Rotimi Durojaiye, aviation correspondence of Daily Independence Newspaper were arrested and charged in 2006 for sedition during Obasanjo's regime when the duo erroneously question the cost and air worthiness of Obasanjo's new Presidential jet and described it as 'Tokunbo'. It won't be a new thing and once again, I urge the Attorney General of the Federation to bring an action against the Newspaper and its editors ... Heaven will not fall! 7 Likes |
Re: Presidential Directive: Police Detain Four LEADERSHIP Staff by doctokwus: 11:16pm On Apr 08, 2013 |
Its possible,evn remotely though,dat as unpresidential as d published bromide looks,wt d ferocity wt which d denials came and now this strong arm tactics to know d source(s),dat document cud actually av emanated frm d presidency.D tactics cud b:make so much fuss about it,publicly harass d journalists and d gullible cud fall for d govt version its a fake.I wudnt conclude on dis tale until d govt charges d newspaper to court& leadership publishes an apology 1 Like |
Re: Presidential Directive: Police Detain Four LEADERSHIP Staff by koruji(m): 12:18am On Apr 09, 2013 |
All the FG can say is that it is false - they are not the ones to determine if it was falsified. As a party to the argument the FG need to follow the law of the land, not sit as a judge in her own case. This is what checks-and-balances in democracies are all about. Adura_ngba: |
Re: Presidential Directive: Police Detain Four LEADERSHIP Staff by RICHIEBOI1(m): 12:21am On Apr 09, 2013 |
Mr. President, if you rule Nigeria like this, your government would soon become isolated by the west. You have already lost a lot of credibility with pardon of Alams, amnesty to BH would also affect you but this arrest of journalists will finally bury your government. I am just advising your excellency not to go there.How low can dis govt go? 2 Likes |
Re: Presidential Directive: Police Detain Four LEADERSHIP Staff by ochukoccna: 12:46am On Apr 09, 2013 |
He who heaven wants to destroy is first made mad Ebele and his creek bandits,your time is up in Aso Rock The time for you to go is NOW! 1 Like |
Re: Presidential Directive: Police Detain Four LEADERSHIP Staff by awodman: 12:48am On Apr 09, 2013 |
take dat: Where was the Nigerian police before Maina absconded? If they are sure the journalists have committed an infraction contrary to the law, they should institute legal action against them instead of this crude tactics. Journalists cannot be compelled to disclose their source to the police, the court should decide!Your hypocrisy knows no bounds.its on record on this forum that you posted that GEJ shud tk action against these guys.Even when some posters brought your attention to how crude that action might be ,you stuck to your guns.Now here you are crying wolf when the same action has been taken |
Re: Presidential Directive: Police Detain Four LEADERSHIP Staff by manny4life(m): 12:54am On Apr 09, 2013 |
OsunOriginal: The end of GEJ's government is imminent... Not till 2019 |
Re: Presidential Directive: Police Detain Four LEADERSHIP Staff by jmaine: 1:47am On Apr 09, 2013 |
eGuerrilla: Did you just say objective commentators . .You need to use a better phrase than peddle that vain scrappy cloak of objectivity you all seek to adorn . . . . . . . |
Re: Presidential Directive: Police Detain Four LEADERSHIP Staff by Nobody: 4:21am On Apr 09, 2013 |
jmaine: And exactly how is your second outing here any different from the first, which set out to misrepresent the views expressed by those who understand the abiding principles of our constitution? It is perfectly okay for you to disagree, you know, without stooping into the gutter due to paucity of ideas NUJ, Editors, HURIWA condemn arrest Source 1 Like |
Re: Presidential Directive: Police Detain Four LEADERSHIP Staff by takedat(m): 5:51am On Apr 09, 2013 |
awodman:Will you STFU! My opinion hasn't changed, but in taking such action the rule of law must be adhered to, which is instituting legal proceedings against them instead of unlawful detention. 1 Like |
Re: Presidential Directive: Police Detain Four LEADERSHIP Staff by awodman: 6:10am On Apr 09, 2013 |
take dat: Will you STFU! My opinion hasn't changed, but in taking such action the rule of law must be adhered to, which is instituting legal proceedings against them instead of unlawful detention. Now,this your comment on the earlier trade about this same issue, take dat: I am sure you do not have comprehension problems. Forgery/ document falsification is a crime against the state, one would have expected ARRESTS and CLAMPDOWN ON THE MEDIA HOUSE BY THE SECURITY AGENCIES NOW, if truly the document purported to have emanated from the presidency is fake. Remember that we are not talking of a blog or an online news outlet with no reputation to protect. This government is hopeless if it can condone such criminality except the government itself is guilty! I leave it to fellow nairalanders to judge like I said your HYPOCRISY 3 Likes |
Re: Presidential Directive: Police Detain Four LEADERSHIP Staff by ladychoice: 6:17am On Apr 09, 2013 |
Why r they oppressing the press and strangling our constitutional rights? Wat dey said was it a lie? |
Re: Presidential Directive: Police Detain Four LEADERSHIP Staff by Idokojimmy: 6:29am On Apr 09, 2013 |
Democratic principles do not permit blatant falsification of documents. It does not allow mischief makers to fabricate papers to hoodwink nigerians into believing that govt is out to victimize some citizens. Freedom of the press doesn't translate into having romance with opposition to the level of being used as a conduit for circulation and publication of dangerous propaganda just to whip up sentiments. This is a case where a presidential directive was doctored by criminals and published by Leadership, and in the face of the law, they are considered as acomplice. The law must have its full course. If this is allowed, the perpetrators will be motivated to continue. Who knows, next time they will falsify document ceding the whole nigeria to Mali 2 Likes |
Re: Presidential Directive: Police Detain Four LEADERSHIP Staff by iykak47: 6:36am On Apr 09, 2013 |
awodman:To call the guy a hypocrite is an understatement, he is a disgrace. Imagine what he wrote about this issue before now ''FORGERY /DOCUMENTS FALSIFICATION IS A CRIME AGAINST THE STATE, ONE WOULD HAVE EXPECTED ARRESTS AND CLAMPDOWN ON THE MEDIA HOUSE BY THE SECURITY AGENCIES''. take dat, I repeat you are a disgrace, you are a chameleon. 1 Like |
Re: Presidential Directive: Police Detain Four LEADERSHIP Staff by takedat(m): 6:38am On Apr 09, 2013 |
awodman:What are you, half a meatball? Where and how did I encourage unlawful detention in those posts? Its appropriate that the police scrupulously investigate the journalists for any tendentious report, but I did/do not subscribe to unlawful detainment! Bugger off! |
Re: Presidential Directive: Police Detain Four LEADERSHIP Staff by nuclearboy(m): 6:43am On Apr 09, 2013 |
awodman: If someone here calls you a liar, is "rational" redress sending assassins after him? Or taking hom to court so he can "prove" before competent law how, where and when you lied AND either be justified for that OR punished for slander? Does it make sense for private citizens to insist that they stand by a "Presidential directive" and the Presidency employ strong-arm tactics NOT to sue them for a trillion and have courts close down the newspaper, BUT to use police thuggery and possible threats of violence against them? Abeg go fake papers claiming ownership of my house and you will see if my recourse would be to buy boxing gloves (as this government is doing) OR take you to court to ensure I get my property back PLUS throw your bottom in Jail for forgery! If it is forgery, take them to court, not torture them Abacha style! As the days pass, it seems rather obvious its not a forgery - the paper is asking for court! Government is attempting torture! Plain obvious what's happening and who is telling the truth! 1 Like |
Re: Presidential Directive: Police Detain Four LEADERSHIP Staff by engrfcuksmtin(m): 6:45am On Apr 09, 2013 |
Take dat is a confused human being. He is worried by I must comment on every thread syndrome (IMCOETS). |
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