Officialpdpnig:


Invasion in the face of national security does not need a warrant because the threat would have gotten away before the rule of law takes effect.

Immediate action is often required in such times.

Quick question.

Many of the boko haram fighters are Nigerians right?

Those who got arrested and their camps destroyed, how many did the military seek an arrest warrant for before carrying out their act and is their act against the law? After all we are in a democracy right?

Officialpdpnig:


And you are an Atikurideen. There is always some myopic nonsensical approach to legit issues from you lot especially when it affects the FG you so loathe.

sinkhole:
Do police need warrant to arrest robbers who are invading a bank?
Do police need a warrant to arrest a suspected robber in his house after a bank had been robbed?

nnamdiosu:


That's the idea bro. When the get the publisher of the news story, he will produce or snitch on who gave him the story.
The only problem is that becos media peeps don't snitch on their sources, the army will then use tactical torture to get the name out.

Randy100:
what if it is from anonymous source, does it mean that the military cannot fish out the leakers?

Officialpdpnig:


Question one is No and that is exactly the case with Daily trust.

They have already passed the news report exposing the military secrets and by extension the secret of the nation to the enemy.

They are like the robber who was arrested in the very act of robbery .

Or will you claim that the army stormed their offices because daily trust WAS THINKING of running the report or because THEY ALREADY published it?

sinkhole:
The robber in his house has already robbed the bank, everybody knows that (the article has already been published) but he was not caught in the act of robbing the bank (the reporter collecting the information) but the police have evidence to seek for the arrest of the robber, the seeking for the arrest they do through the court.
Thank you see you later.

Samirana360:
Yeye
U think u r doing me, u r doing urself ...someone should help me with that meme

Officialpdpnig:


So daily trust would report news of this magnitude from an unverified source?

Say something else

FreddyKruger:
What's classified in a bunch of ill trained soldiers coming together in mass numbers to fight their nightmares i.e bokoharam? Isn't it the same bokoharam that gives the army intelligence about their attacks before they attack? Cowardly pythons

MSRA:


The 'official secrets act' is that in the Nigerian Constitution?

According to Vanguard Newspapers:

Enacted on September 1962, the Official Secret Act provides for the protection of official information.

The act specifically provides for the protection of sensitive official information, among others.

The act provides that any person charged with an offence under the foregoing subsection shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to have acted for a purpose prejudicial to the security of Nigeria.

Still from the Vanguard Newspapers:


On the other hand, Freedom of Information Act, passed into law in 2011 provides for free access of public information to the citizen. The act also provides for the protection of personal privacy, protection of serving public officers from adverse consequences of disclosing certain kinds of official information without authorisation and establishes procedures for the achievement of those purposes and; for related matters.

And according to lawyers:
The official Secret Act by implication is dead with the enactment of the Freedom of Information Act. By implication, any law that runs contrary to a latter law is null and void.

So quite apart from the fact that the Nigerian Army are not supposed to be making any civilian arrests, nor should they be attacking press houses, the very bastions of our democracy, they are actually acting in illegality by hiding under an act enacted two years after the founding of Nigeria.

This is a new low for the Nigerian Army

Officialpdpnig:


Lmao legal edges indeed in an act of Treason. You go old

fotadmowmend:

Act of treason that has not bn established in a court of law??

Zanotee:


A whole Director of Army Public Relations doesn't know the difference between "Advise and Advice".

Officialpdpnig:


It has been established by the act itself carried out. This is how you know what to sue a person for.

fotadmowmend:

Lolz... Bros we ain't in a military regime nobody should be convicted without trial....

hypertension:


Its still not the right thing to do. The Military shoyld have behaved better.

If the press is not free the we are all in trouble my dear

Ozor03:
The military has been compromised!! Indeed the soldiers were not wrong about their operations being sabotaged! How the hell did the press get such a sensitive info in the first place

solaugo1:
CLARIFICATION ON INVITATION OF MEDIA TRUST STAFF BY THE SECURITY AGENCIES



The Nigerian Army wishes to clarify on alleged invasion of Media Trust Headquarters in Abuja and regional office in Maiduguri. We would like to state that soldiers of the Nigerian Army along with elements of Nigeria Police Force and other Security Agencies were indeed at Abuja and Maiduguri offices of the publishing company to invite the staff of the company over its lead story on Sunday Trust publication, which divulged classified military information, thus undermining national security.

In it, the newspaper made disclosed details of planned military operations against the Boko Haram terrorists. The disclosure of classified security information amounts to a breach of national security and run contrary to Sections 1 and 2 of the Official Secrets Act.

It afforded the Boko Haram terrorists prior notice of our plans and giving them early warning to prepare against the Nigerian military, thus sabotaging the planned operations and putting the lives of troops in imminent and clear danger.

We would like to state that the invitation of those responsible for divulging military plans was done with the best of intention in order to make them realise the import of such acts to our national security.

We therefore advice all, particularly journalists, not to worry but engage in their responsive reportage and to be professional as the Nigerian Army has no intention of muzzling the press or jeopardising press freedom.

We however, wish to enjoin further that they should eschew jeopardizing national security in their reportage. We would not tolerate situation where a publication would consistently side with terrorists and undermine our National institutions.

We wish to appeal to all, especially the media, to join hands with the Nigerian military and security forces to end terrorism and insurgency in Nigeria. We would like to further assure that the invitation is for further investigation and if need be, all those culpable of jeopardising operations security will be prosecuted by the relevant law enforcement agency.

You are please requested to disseminate this information to the public through your medium.

Thank you for your kind cooperation.

SANI KUKASHEKA USMAN
Brigadier General
Director Army Public Relations

Source - https://news.assure.ng/why-we-invade-daily-trust-newspaper-offices-nigerian-army-press-statement/

crownwealth:



The coup plotter is a rogue. Shagari will never forgive him & Nigerians will never forget except the few Idiots among us who want the terrorist to continue.

Randy100:
what if it is from anonymous source, does it mean that the military cannot fish out the leakers?

oyebanji44:
They were one of the Northern religious fanatics sponsoring the utter destruction of Nigeria and the emergence of a seperate Northern state.

Officialpdpnig:


If they did not arrest those who leaked the information how would they be able to investigate and get the source who leaked it to them?

Or you think the source will just present himself to the army and say I did it?

Make una dey try use una brain small

Guide777:

Now that press freedom has been muzzled because somebody used his brain wrongly, they will start to run helter skelter to launder their battered image...
How can you hope to win a battle with insurgency when your own citizens and press are not on your side?

Officialpdpnig:


How can you hope to win when the press are as unpatriotic as to leak army secrets to the enemy