LibertyRep:
This is my position and may be unpopular ;

Since a handful of Nigerians are interested in the veracity of the report, the DSS should immediately arrest the reporters of both Premium Times and The Nation as well as the Miyetti Allah Boss. This will:

i. Enable them to carry out proper investigation to determine whether the Miyetti Allah man actually made such damning revelation which will qualify him for prompt prosecution.

ii. If the report was false, the reporters should be made to face the wrath of the law to serve as deterrents to other purveyors of fake news, capable of aggravating the already tensed situations in the nation.

He claimed that he has no recording of the interview with Ciroma. How then can anyone believe him now that Ciroma had denied saying that?

Paperwhite:

Meanwhile Premium Times, Daily Trust, have been coerced to recant. The truth can't be suppressed.
"If You Stand For The Truth,You Alway Stand Alone"-Lucky Dube.

You do not stand for the truth, you stand for propaganda.

miqos02:
recording an interview without authorisation is against ethics

then what is the essence of conducting the interview.

CLASHES? THE WORLD’S GREATEST DECEIT!!!
CALLING A SPADE BY ITS NAME
SUN JUN 24TH, 2018

By Anietie John Ukpe

Instead of talking of herdsmen’s pogroms (or genocides) in Nigeria, the world is talking of herdsmen/farmers clashes. We are so immersed in this propaganda and deceit that our senses and morality have been numbed.
According to Joseph Goebbels, the notorious propagandist who drove the frightful propaganda machine of Hitler’s Germany, “The secret of propaganda (is that) those who are to be persuaded by it should be so completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it.”

Actually, what the herdsmen are doing to farming communities in Benue, Plateau, Taraba, Adamawa and Kaduna, is akin to what Germans did to Jews in Hitler’s Germany. From the “Night of Broken Glass” (November 9-10, 1938) when rampaging Germans went on a killing spree of Jews under the pretext of avenging the assassination of German diplomat, Ernst vom Rath, in France,by a teenage Jew, Herschel Grynszpan; to when over six million Jews were killed in concentration camps, the Jews were on the defensive – just as the farmers are on the defensive in Nigeria. How can it, therefore, be a clash when one group is persistently attacking, killing, maiming and destroying; and the other group is persistently being killed, maimed and destroyed? How can it be a clash when herdsmen are hunting farmers, and farmers are running for their lives? How can it be a clash when herdsmen are the predators and farmers are the preys? To sum it up, calling what is happening in our nation “a clash” is like describing the Holocaust as a Germans/Jews clash.

So, what is a “clash”? The relevant dictionary definition of a “clash” is “a violent confrontation or fight.” Is that what we have been having in these states? Are herdsmen involved in a fight or violent confrontation with farmers? The answer is “No!” What we have is a group of heavily armed rampaging herdsmen hunting down and massacring unarmed farmers and their families – including women, children and the aged – for not allowing their cattle graze in their farms. So by what stretch of imagination is this a clash?

Of course, the clash only exists in the minds of officials of the central government. The tragedy is that they may actually believe it because according to Goebbels, “If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.”

It was the utter and frustrating helplessness of the farmers that compelled General Theophilus Danjuma (retd) to urge farmers “to stand their ground” – to borrow an American legal term. The “Stand-your-ground law” in America (also called “line in the sand” or “no duty to retreat”) justifies a man standing his ground and using maximum force to defend himself or others from threats and perceived threats in criminal cases. Therefore, clashes can and will only occur if farmers follow Danjuma’s advice, stand their ground and defend themselves.

The logic in the argument that cattle rearing, like fish farming, architecture and tailoring, is a private business and should not attract public funding is unassailable. But even if you step away from that logical fortress, puzzles still liter your path. Cattle rearing is not native to the states where these pogroms are taking place or have taken place. It has greater roots and history in Sokoto, Kano, Jigawa, Katsina and Borno – major Moslem states. So why are we not having these “clashes” in these states? Why do herdsmen not drive their cattle into the farmlands in these key Moslem states? Why are there no “clashes” between herdsmen and farmers in these states? The reason is simply because where faith is shared, guns are not fired and rights are not violated. Which puts a religious coloring on these pogroms.

American President Donald Trump was, therefore, in order when he asked Buhari to stop the killing of Christians. Nearly all the farmers killed are Christians, yet we have Muslim farmers in the North who have never been attacked by the herdsmen and have never had any trespass on their farms by herdsmen.

The first step in finding a solution to this madness is to call it the way it is – a pogrom, NOT A CLASH. Labeling it right is desired to get the right global reaction. We should let the name and the shame prick the conscience of the world in the faith that the world still boasts of enough good women and men to rise up against another holocaust. We should tell the world the way it is in the hope that like Dr Martin Luther King Jr. was right when he said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Justice will not fail, though wickedness appears strong, and has on its side the armies and thrones of power.... Justice will not fail and perish out from the world of men, nor will what is really wrong and contrary to God’s real law of justice continually endure.”
*Ukpe is a journalist based in Uyo.

They tried to make fake news out of or make fake of real news you released,please stand firmly by it.

Why this unnecessary debate over Miyetti Allah's statement over recent killings in Plateau?It was not the first time they would make such statement they did the same in Benue when 75 Christians were killed.

Premium Times were not stupid to have sacked their journalist and tendered their apology to Myetti Allah for relying on an unsubstantiated 2nd hand news not obtained through proper established channels for information sharing, from an apparently inexperienced 19 year old, who quite clearly could hardly express himself in writing even though he calls himself a journalist.
Based on the above, I am very doubtful if this person could have had the necessary comprehension and therefore the competence to quote anyone accurately - it is no wonder that many of these semi illiterate journalists keep misquoting/misinterpreting the president much to our embarrassment.

CSTR1005:

Look at this shitt stain.

Verbose nonsense -Is that the new word you have learnt. ?

One of the most annoying things in cyberspace is to see dimwits prance about dishing out crap.

What is more unfortunate than that is that I have no control over whatever half baked nonsense the likes of you churn out to insult our sensibilities.

Twitter lord with as much knowledge as can fill a tea cup.

illiterate.

My comments here pained you so much, you took your time to go through my other social media, shows how idle you are.

Now get you ignorant and delusional self off my mentions.

Pettiness at it's peak. Sha kuro.

kennygee:


My comments here pained you so much, you took your time to go through my other social media, shows how idle you are.

Now get you ignorant and delusional self off my mentions.

Pettiness at it's peak. Sha kuro.

I stumbled on your twitter handle, you scum.

I don't even use twitter. I clicked a link that took me there only to see your shitty nonsense and then remembered that I have seen the handle somewhere on nairaland with the same nonsense.

You want me to stay out of your mention? Don't quote me again.

And for Goodness sake ,stop posting nonsense.

Yankee101:
That statement was too distinct to be quoted out of context. And everyone that knows the fulani already knows they value the cattle sometimes more than their own lives.

Imcase you don't know alot of them don't usually eat beef. If you sell your cattle and move to the township without keeping any cattle you are seen as a wayward child. So Buhari is seen as a true fulani for still keeping cattle. Ask yourself why a sitting President will still keep cattle and fly out to see them regularly. It is not normal behaviour. They also cry when cattle die. They sell mostly only the milk products for their needs. They kill only the goat/sheep that accompany the cattle in times of festivities. They do not really care alot about praying 5x a day like the regular Hausa (They brought the burden but do not burden themselves with it). They marry one wife usually. They CRY when cattle die.

So the reporter was not saying anything new for those who know.

You can retrieve your conversation from MTN or any other network with a court order (if this Buhari influenced judges will not be scared to give you the order and if MTN will not be scared to lose their license)

Untrue, you cannot retrieve your 'conversation' from any network operator. You can only retrieve the call details, which would show the phone number you called, the time & date the call was placed, and the number of minutes, the call lasted. It will never contain the speech of both parties, neither will it show details of what was said.

LibertyRep:
This is my position and may be unpopular ;

Since a handful of Nigerians are interested in the veracity of the report, the DSS should immediately arrest the reporters of both Premium Times and The Nation as well as the Miyetti Allah Boss. This will:

i. Enable them to carry out proper investigation to determine whether the Miyetti Allah man actually made such damning revelation which will qualify him for prompt prosecution.

ii. If the report was false, the reporters should be made to face the wrath of the law to serve as deterrents to other purveyors of fake news, capable of aggravating the already tensed situations in the
nation.

So you trust your DSS? Wonderful.