RE: KASHAMU SPONSORS BILL ON MENTAL HEALTH


Our attention has been drawn to a report with the above title in the online version of The Punch newspaper which might be published in the hard copy of tomorrow, Friday, 9th October, 2015.

Despite exercising great restraint in not joining issues with The Punch newspaper over the years, we have noticed a consistent pattern by some elements within the newspaper to prosecute a proxy political battle.

This time, the newspaper took its biased for Senator Kashamu a notch higher when it deliberately twisted a report that a bill he sponsored on mental health illnesses had passed first reading in the Senate.

Instead of commending Senator Kashamu for being one of the first set of lawmakers to sponsor a bill in the 8th Senate, or at least just report event and tell us the contents of the bill, it went on a binge to cast aspersion on his person.

First, we which unnamed experts told The Punch that drugs "remained the major cause of mental ailments among the youths?" This is just a colouration given to the report by The Punch's Sunday Aborishade who has a clear mandate to report lies about Senator Kashamu and/or twist reports that relate to him.

Recall that he was the one who, shortly after the 8th Senate was inaugurated in June, reported that Kashamu was absent at the Senate whereas he was not! Now, in another of his jaundiced report, Aborishade says "Kashamu is currently being investigated by the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency on issues relating to drug abuse which, experts claimed, remained the major cause of mental ailments among the youths".

Pray, does it not smack off ignorance that a man who had been tried and discharged severally over the same allegations both in Nigeria and the UK could be said to be "being investigated"? If he is still being investigated by the NDLEA (the very agency that had severally testified in his favour), why was the extradition proceedings instituted against him dismissed in June, this year?
In case The Punch and its minders do not know, according to WebMD, mental illnesses are caused by three major factors, namely biological factors/inherited traits, psychological factors and environmental factors. It is under the environmental factors that you have substance abuse.

So, the less than clever attempt to narrow mental illnesses to drugs abuse and make Senator Kashamu unfit to present the bill, even when several courts have exonerated him, is wicked and unprofessional, to say the least!

It is only consistent with The Punch’s Pull-Kashamu-Down campaign. It has an uncanny penchant for twisting anything that relates to Senator Kashamu, and there are several examples. It reportage of Ogun State/South West PDP issues, congratulatory message to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, face-off with the NDLEA and lately the NANS award!

We do know the relationship among the Managing Director of The Punch newspapers, Mr. ‘Demola Osinubi, former Governor Gbenga Daniel and some expired politicians in Ago-Iwoye, Ijebu North Local Government Area of Ogun State where Osinubi and Senator Kashamu hail from. But we never knew that anyone who sacrifice professionalism on the altar of primordial sentiments.

Clearly, someone is under a clear mandate to use the newspaper to run down Senator Kashamu under the pretext of performing its professional duties! But, we know that no man, no medium, no matter how powerful, is God!

Thank you.

Signed,
Austin Oniyokor,
Media aide to Senator Buruji Kashamu.

I beg park well , na who una one wash .

He should be the first beneficiary of this bill

Lol

yes it is a good one from kashamu but why is he making it seem like it is the only good thing he has done with his life

madness

Thought the tribunal has sacked him

ok

.

Poor and watery
No juice

zzz

I love this write-up. Carefully selected words, well conveyed info.
Kudos to the media aid but they still need more damage control.

Let me comment my reserve.
Beside is lalaticslala d source, cos I always see dat name at d bottome of every post

mental health is a big issue in our society..

Interesting read, it seems as long as Kashamu is not interested in going near the U.S, colourful stories about him will continue to pop up.

In life you need them haters to tell the lying truth and your friends to tell you the lying lie

H

Lol..

This is a funny write up o

Pls help me click on this. http://PayRefe.com/?ref=131811 I dey beg help ooo I beg

He should jejely go n re contest...mr aide we dont believe you you need more people.

gmoni2:
mental health is a big issue in our society..

Very serious matter in Aba

ebonywilly:
RE: KASHAMU SPONSORS BILL ON MENTAL HEALTH


Our attention has been drawn to a report with the above title in the online version of The Punch newspaper which might be published in the hard copy of tomorrow, Friday, 9th October, 2015.

Despite exercising great restraint in not joining issues with The Punch newspaper over the years, we have noticed a consistent pattern by some elements within the newspaper to prosecute a proxy political battle.

This time, the newspaper took its biased for Senator Kashamu a notch higher when it deliberately twisted a report that a bill he sponsored on mental health illnesses had passed first reading in the Senate.

Instead of commending Senator Kashamu for being one of the first set of lawmakers to sponsor a bill in the 8th Senate, or at least just report event and tell us the contents of the bill, it went on a binge to cast aspersion on his person.

First, we which unnamed experts told The Punch that drugs "remained the major cause of mental ailments among the youths?" This is just a colouration given to the report by The Punch's Sunday Aborishade who has a clear mandate to report lies about Senator Kashamu and/or twist reports that relate to him.

Recall that he was the one who, shortly after the 8th Senate was inaugurated in June, reported that Kashamu was absent at the Senate whereas he was not! Now, in another of his jaundiced report, Aborishade says "Kashamu is currently being investigated by the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency on issues relating to drug abuse which, experts claimed, remained the major cause of mental ailments among the youths".

Pray, does it not smack off ignorance that a man who had been tried and discharged severally over the same allegations both in Nigeria and the UK could be said to be "being investigated"? If he is still being investigated by the NDLEA (the very agency that had severally testified in his favour), why was the extradition proceedings instituted against him dismissed in June, this year?
In case The Punch and its minders do not know, according to WebMD, mental illnesses are caused by three major factors, namely biological factors/inherited traits, psychological factors and environmental factors. It is under the environmental factors that you have substance abuse.

So, the less than clever attempt to narrow mental illnesses to drugs abuse and make Senator Kashamu unfit to present the bill, even when several courts have exonerated him, is wicked and unprofessional, to say the least!

It is only consistent with The Punch’s Pull-Kashamu-Down campaign. It has an uncanny penchant for twisting anything that relates to Senator Kashamu, and there are several examples. It reportage of Ogun State/South West PDP issues, congratulatory message to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, face-off with the NDLEA and lately the NANS award!

We do know the relationship among the Managing Director of The Punch newspapers, Mr. ‘Demola Osinubi, former Governor Gbenga Daniel and some expired politicians in Ago-Iwoye, Ijebu North Local Government Area of Ogun State where Osinubi and Senator Kashamu hail from. But we never knew that anyone who sacrifice professionalism on the altar of primordial sentiments.

Clearly, someone is under a clear mandate to use the newspaper to run down Senator Kashamu under the pretext of performing its professional duties! But, we know that no man, no medium, no matter how powerful, is God!

Thank you.

Signed,
Austin Oniyokor,
Media aide to Senator Buruji Kashamu.

why ll he not sponsor it? does he not know how many pple his drugs has sent to psychiatric hospital...

Where is that Abobaku? These are the kind of people he likes supporting!

mars123:
yes it is a good one from kashamu but why is he making it seem like it is the only good thing he has done with his life

and tribunal decided to sack him on this day he decided to do one good thing in his life. Eyah.. I would have suggested the senate sponsor him to US to carry out proper research on mental health laws of advanced countries.

KASHAMU (drug lord) = bill on MENTAL, those dat have brain will reason well with ME.