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Re: Army Harassing Journalists And The Public Over Missing General - NUJ by IbrahimDamola: 10:16pm On Oct 08, 2018
No pity for any missing soldier. Nigeria soldiers are experts at making people disappear and burying them in unmarked graves.

They should have a taste of their own medicine. There are countless online videos of soldiers killing people in the South and middlebelt dragging their dead bodies to go bury in unmarked graves to kill evidence.

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Re: Army Harassing Journalists And The Public Over Missing General - NUJ by slimfit1(m): 10:20pm On Oct 08, 2018
The job of the police see banana republic
Re: Army Harassing Journalists And The Public Over Missing General - NUJ by delpee(f): 10:45pm On Oct 08, 2018
Suppose the Beroms are not responsible for his disappearance? Or is there valid evidence? Anything could have happened. I pray that they find the General or get to know exactly what happened to him. It's a sad case really. May God grant his family strength and courage .

I hope that innocent people in the area will not be tortured to confess what they have no knowledge of. I pray that the indigenes will not be made to suffer unduly.

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Re: Army Harassing Journalists And The Public Over Missing General - NUJ by Jgovt(m): 11:03pm On Oct 08, 2018
The best I've seen regarding this issue...The citizens are innocent,I believe the killers are in the Army,as the saying goes, 'na house rat dy tell outside rat where fish dy'..RIP GENERAL
Nbote:
There's more to dis whole story dat d public doesn't know about... Dis whole thing looks schemed and considering d General was 2weeks away from his retirement says a lot
Re: Army Harassing Journalists And The Public Over Missing General - NUJ by whao: 11:19pm On Oct 08, 2018
A lawyer from the North was telling me today about the missing general, I thought it was something good but she said maybe it's a pay back time of KARMA, she claims the late general was a damn wicked and horrible man.

Maybe God answered the prayer of one poor and innocent woman or man that their right or freedom has been trampled on, thereby pushing him in his enemies hand to prove his level of training or our tax payers money training him on how to defend himself but unfortunately something went wrong.

My flight is for the innocent have their freedom, I saw a post where an innocent man was shot by the army as claim after knocking his door and as he just opened the door then gun shot.
In this case, do you think his family members and the dead man will pray good to to that army? Noooo way!!!!! I can see why the devil keep pursuing them and they can't have peace till they all die miserably

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Re: Army Harassing Journalists And The Public Over Missing General - NUJ by baddosky1: 1:13am On Oct 09, 2018
Nbote:
There's more to dis whole story dat d public doesn't know about... Dis whole thing looks schemed and considering d General was 2weeks away from his retirement says a lot

The Army works like the ragtag CIA and secret police. When you as a member knows something you shouldn't know, you are "erased"!

PS: I said the Army o...i didn't call "Nigerian Army".

If you know you know!
Re: Army Harassing Journalists And The Public Over Missing General - NUJ by Omonaijani: 8:49am On Oct 09, 2018
Re: Army Harassing Journalists And The Public Over Missing General - NUJ by Ningi2020(m): 8:56am On Oct 09, 2018
EmagNig:
The Plateau State chapter of Nigerian Union of Journalist (NUJ), has threatened to withdraw its members from the ongoing military search and rescue operation of the missing general, Muhammed Alkali.

The group also expressed concern over what it described as arbitrary harassment and intimidation of members of public, Premium Times reports.

NUJ made its position in a press statement signed by its chairman and secretary, Paul Jatau and Peter Amine respectively.

“The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Plateau State Council is concerned about the way and manner the Nigeria Army is going about its search for missing Maj. Gen. Idris Alkali (rtd).

“The abitrary harassment, intimidation and arrest of members of the public as part of their search is a thing of worry to the NUJ.

“We recall that at the commencement of the evacuation of water from Dura Du pond in Jos South, the Army told the public that they have credible intelligence that the missing general’s car was in the pond and true to their word, the car was retrieved from the pond.

“We expect them to use the same intelligence they used to locate the car to go after the suspects as they continue the search for Gen. Alkali or his body.

“We are perturbed because innocent people are not spared by the crude method they have employed thereby instilling fear and overheating the polity.

“The Army on Saturday in a statement, assured the public that they will exhibit high level professionalism according to international standard in the search but what is on display contradicts the assurances.

“The same Saturday, a member of our Union, a reporter of the Punch Newspaper was arrested alongside other persons by the army and was detained for 28 hours in Rukuba Barracks as part of the search.

“We wish to state unequivocally that while journalists support the search for the missing senior officer, indeed the Nigeria Union Of Journalists, Plateau State Council will not hesitate in withdrawing its members from covering their activities if the intimidation and harrasment continues,” the statement highlighted.

According to the Punch reporter who was released Monday morning, he and 36 others were, on Sunday, arrested at Anne Breeze Restaurant, Rayfied area of Jos South Local Government Area of the state, where he went to buy food.

“I came back last night after spending about 28 hours behind bars over the Jos missing Gen. Mohammed Idris Alkali (retd). We were 28 men and 9 women (37).

“I went to buy food by 9:00 p.m. on Saturday (curfew starts by 10:00) at a popular Anne Breeze Restaurant when soldiers in two lorry trucks (about 30 of them) swooped on the place, shot indiscriminately at sight and arrested every human being they sighted.

“Even my identification that I’m a journalist didn’t help matters. Twenty-eight of us were kept in an uncompleted building and I had no access to my family, editors and colleagues because they took our phones,” the reporter narrated.

When contacted on the matter, deputy director, army public relations, Kayode Ogunsanya, said the journalist was found in a wrong place, though he did not specifically provide the name of the place.

“The journalist was found at a wrong place at the wrong time. When l recognised him on my own, he was later released. He spent less that 20hrs, as against 28hrs he claimed,” Mr Ogunsanya said.

Mr Alkali was declared missing on September 3, when he was traveling from Abuja to Bauchi.

After a few weeks, the army received intelligence that the general’s body or car was in the pond.

The draining of water from the pond was earlier protested by the women of the community who appeared in black, claiming that the pond has ancestral inclination.

Their protest was unsuccessful.

The car of the missing general and two others cars were found.

A blood-stained T-Shirt and a boxer short, believed to belong to the general, were also found in the car on a Saturday evening by a combined security team.

On Wednesday, the army in the early hours of that day, cordoned off the community and arrested 30 suspects in connection to the missing general but promised not to take any military action on the community.

The army on Friday, dismissed the rumour that two corpses were discovered in the pond.

https://lailasnews.com/army-harassing-journalists-and-the-public-over-missing-general-nuj/

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Re: Army Harassing Journalists And The Public Over Missing General - NUJ by Ningi2020(m): 9:01am On Oct 09, 2018
GreatMahmud:
Who the hell is the Army General.... Is he greater than the ordinary man that has been missing there for long or killed in Boko Haram war.. Nonsense!! undecided undecided undecided
Have you taken your drugs today,, I can bet this very same man even dead is better than your father
Re: Army Harassing Journalists And The Public Over Missing General - NUJ by Pataricatering(f): 7:40pm On Oct 09, 2018
Christians are the worst hypocrites ever ! Now that their murderous brethren have been discovered - it’s now wait for investigation , army frame-up , govt cover-up etc etc !

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