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We Spend Too Much To Attack Okorocha’s Government: What A Doomday!!! by tufur24(m): 6:20pm On Nov 13, 2015 |
WE SPEND TOO MUCH TO ATTACK OKOROCHA’S
GOVERNMENT: WHAT A DOOMDAY!!!
By Onuchukwu Hamilton (07065183676)
The above confessional statement echoed from
my friend recently when some interesting
partners passionately ask him why their
Newspaper has been trying to lampoon
Okorocha’s Government in the front pages of
their Newspaper called “Community Watch Dog”.
Since November 3rd, watch dog conspicuously
publish that Uche Nwosu’s cook disappears with
billions from Imo Bailout Funds. On the 10th of
November, their banner headlines stated that Imo
Lawyers Fight to Finish over Uche Nwosu and the
rider reads “Fall over one another to handle court
case” “Announcer, whitepaper get “yo” man” job.
The publisher’s portrait in the front page of the
same edition reads “watchdog publisher Comrade
Nwadike escapes assassination. One Okere
Kingdom also wrote in the same paper with his
attached portrait that “Nwosu lied” Imo Bailout
fund was stolen from his bedrooms”. The
publisher equally placed Chief Ikedi Ohakim’s
picture and wrote thus: Ikedi Ohakim squandered
N2.2billion on road demarcation says Okorocha.
To be very honest, the history of community
watchdog newspaper is incomplete without
Hamilton. The publisher is not just a brother but a
true friend. I should rank among the first set of
journalists in Imo he consulted before it’s
establishment and I can attest to his socio-
political interest but by the logic of concept, logic
of judgment and the logic of inference. My very
good friend was trying to make Ex-Governor
Ohakim a living saint who only squandered
N2.2billion on road demarcation as he allegedly
stated that Governor Okorocha said. I have told
friends to tell Okere to go and apologize to Chief
Uche Nwosu because he has no right to publish
that Uche Nwosu lied and carelessly wrote that
Imo Bailout Fund was stolen from Uche’s
bedroom – when the originator of the allegation,
is yet to substantiate it. This is not journalism.
If you heard of theft in the private confines of the
Chief of Staff, part of your questions should have
been; what was actually stolen? Can a state fund
of such magnitude that is wriggles round the Imo
Accountant General’s Office be kept inside a
personal bedroom? This shows that you know
nothing about the accounting and financial
policies of the state-government. Your
publications are wrongly worded as you failed to
use the ethical terms in journalism to credit your
argument. I do not need to teach you the terms
here for corrections until you prove that you
actually saw the walls of a journalism institution. If
I teach you the terms you should have applied,
will I teach you, libel and sedition because the
publication is so incisive – traumatic as, if the
fund made available for civil servants is hijacked,
many will suffer high blood pressure and probably
kick the bucket. It is a seditious offence against
the state and the federal government because
your publication implies that the police, the SSS,
and other security agencies of the federal
government in Imo State Government House and
those deployed at the residential home of the
Chief of Staff are incapable.
A journalist or a newspaper outfit established by
law, should be accurate and truthful in all his
publications and should be fair as to earn the
public confidence; trust and reliance. When you
make, publish or reproduce any false statement,
rumour or report which is likely to cause fear,
alarm or despondency among the public or any
section of the public; or is likely to disturb the
pubic peace, you shall be guilty of an offence.
The goal of human hood is the attainment of
certitude. Truth is absolute and universal. It is
something inseparable from experience and
experience shows that public funds are rather
kept in the bank not personal bedroom. The test
of truth is utility, workability or satisfactory
consequences.
Journalism is neither mass communication or
public relations and all about lexis and structure.
Because it encapsulates a lot, publishers and
reporters are advice to enroll into an accredited
institute of journalism after their first degree in
mass communication. Besides masscom
graduates can work well as PROs and Newscasters
until he or she had undergone through the major
trainings and the spiritual baptism that converts
a female reporter into a man for her to now
answer the gentleman of the press. This is the
time you will proverbially start seeing everybody
as a suspect. You can hardly dance and merry in
a function. Members of the society of easy virtue
will hate you. This explains why journalist hardly
or peacefully stay with a woman.
I like Precious Nwadike, he has some of these
qualities in him – but he has to subject his
reporters to certificate verification exercise as to
ascertain if they are the true conscience of the
society or the junk and yellow types. They are
crying that they have expended to much to pull
Governor Okorocha down and yet, Imo people are
still romancing with the Governor. This is just
because journalists like us remain adamant over
the Bailout Scandal as when the rumour filtered
like a tip-off, I thought of where it might lead me
into, the kind or story to develop from it, the kind
of research to be adopted, the impact of the story
on Imo people but my friend quickly went and
published the story – which Imo people now see
as a mischievous speculation.
At this juncture, I have no intention of sounding a
call for a severe punishment on Nwadike being a
friend who has a worrisome perspective about
this profession. Yet I do not intend to condone,
much less to urge an attitude of passive
resignation, or a relegation of the profession to
the realm of things we should choose not to think
about. This kind of media attack on Governor
Okorocha by an infinitesimal paid group may
actually be seen as the beauty of democracy but
avoidable evils remains, as it is always will, an
enemy that can be defeated. |
Re: We Spend Too Much To Attack Okorocha’s Government: What A Doomday!!! by Nobody: 6:23pm On Nov 13, 2015 |
Re: We Spend Too Much To Attack Okorocha’s Government: What A Doomday!!! by funkyibodude(m): 6:24pm On Nov 13, 2015 |
There's no smoke without fire. Behind every rumour there's an atom of truth |
Re: We Spend Too Much To Attack Okorocha’s Government: What A Doomday!!! by HoLEEsinner: 6:28pm On Nov 13, 2015 |
Ok |
Re: We Spend Too Much To Attack Okorocha’s Government: What A Doomday!!! by tufur24(m): 6:41pm On Nov 13, 2015 |
funkyibodude: That is a lie. |
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