₦airaland Forum

manny4life: First of,

Look, persons of interest endure harassment. It comes with the profession, if you cannot handle it, stay out of it. If you cant handle the heat, stay out of the kitchen. This has nothing to do with freedom of expression. I'm not 100% expert on U.S. laws, though I'm not certain, and I could be wrong, under the U.S. PATRIOTIC ACT, I do know that the U.S. Govt does have the right to seize your property if they have any reason to believe that you're a person of interest.... If you think I lie, research it.


Hiding under persons of interest (whatever that is) is totally crap. Randomly selecting peeps that will fit into ur persons of interest is rubbish. why is it that those critical of govt falls into such? This man was harassed for no just cause and that is the baseline.

Secondly,

I'm not contradicting myself.

You asked, why was he harassed? I said because he's a person of interest? When did people of interest become criminals?

I never said he committed a crime, please go back to my first post. What I clearly stated was, publishing wrongful material that has potential to cause homeland chaos is dead WRONG and INAPPROPRIATE.

But this journalist is not known to published wrongful news. Does he?

manny4life: Though I won't call it harassment, however, the harassment is because he's a person of interest.

If its not harrassement, then what is it?

Persons of Interest are treated like that, the goal of operative is to stall collective/distributive efforts and not prevent or STOP them.

and does it make it right especially if such are noted to be truthfull in their dealings? ur efforts in trying to justify what those goons went there to do would only make sense in a dictatorial government and not a democratic setting

Wouldn't it make sense, STOPPING them means someone is got to go? That isn't the aim, the aim is somewhat stall their efforts but it doesn't me journalist don't have to find other ways to beat the govt to its own protocols or even proceed with their work.

Stall someone that is constitutionally doing his duties in truth and indeed in a democratic setting wonderful

manny4life: My friend, this is no harassment at all, these guys acted normal and most importantly professional.

I thought u said u are based in US? Are u saying all what the journalist and his family endured all throughout that night is normal? restricting his freedom for no just cause


The crime he committed (though not one to me) is that he's a person of interest. High profile interest everywhere are treated same way. Shouldn't he be lucky they they did not touch him? Fine, they threatened him - they said if he shouted or called anyone, they will deal with him.

Oga, u are contradicting ursef. U claim he has committed a crime but at the same time not a crime. what exactly is ur position? if he committed a crime, what is this crime. If u cant explain further, lets just accept that he has committed no crime.


In your opinion, since he knew they were onto him, YET, he made the call, if the SSS operatives were callous and unprofessional, wouldn't they have hurt or even killed him, YET, kill the trace of that phone call? All the SSS did was confiscate hie belonging because he was a person of interest.

Professional or not is not the issue here, the question is "what has the journalist done to have warranted such?"

manny4life: You do not expect the govt to accept it, in as long as he has evidence to show forth that his stories were confirmed, people like me want to know. My own disappointment in general (in ref to my first post), was the unconfirmed news about his death in India, at a particular time.

but it didnt originate from this journalist. All what has originated from this journalist so far has been the truth (chime's illness). why the harassment then? shouldnt journalists proceed with their work again because there are bad journalists out there

manny4life: Guilty or innocence is something that court of law has to decide. If he knows that he's clean, then let him go about it the right way.

manny4life: Where there no several reports that Gov Chime was dead? My comment was on a broad view and not any particular person per se. I will reiterate again, publishing unconfirmed death reports about a sitting govt official is WRONG.

manny4life: Lame to you.

YES, to each his own. What concerns me if Nigerian publisher publishes that SA governor or Cameroonian president is dead? How does that affect me? F Freedom of press is only restricted to the individual country/state, therefore, if CNN publishes wrongful information or otherwise about another country, that's different than when it's "HOMELAND SECURITY". Get the difference?

Apparently, in you futile bid to make me look bad, you've exhibited same daftness you accuse me of. Have you ever heard of CNN publishing any state governor being dead or sick or otherwise "WRONGFULLY"? Please use your fuc.king brains and not your an.us to think. A Nigerian published wrongful material about a "SITTING GOVERNOR" of his homeland, that would serious security chaos, how does that equate to CNN publishing "UNCONFIRMED" international stories?

i keep on hearing this and to be honest, it makes no sense.
Kindly refer me to any story emanating from this journalist that categorically stated that Chime is dead.
This will surely be a game changer

Rooneyboy: what exactly is ur stress youngman

[b]Are u ok at all?

Chime is ill, there's nothing being wrong in being ill, what exactly do u want to see him for [/b]

And how do u know that? wasnt it not this same journalist that is being harassed by those goons that broke the story for u?

The government in the past sponsored advertorials (October 18) on two national dailies against me, this was shortly after I broke the story on the governor’s health and his continuous absence from the state on October 14.

dayokanu: Mr USA, How many times have reporters in the USA published news of Fidel castros death,

Earlier this year CNN told us of "unconfirmed report of Hosni Mubaraks death. I guess the professional fool.ishness extends to CNN too.

Ever since they published the report has Chime come out to deny it?

Exactly, where is Chime himself. we kept on seeing his commissioners talking on his behalf but no one seems to have heard from him directly.
Even the late yaradua's earlier case wasnt this terrible. During campaign, OBJ made sure at least we heard his voice from his hospital bed from germany.
Umaru, is that u

hugafella: Demdem or demsay, if u don't have anything to say, just keep quiet. How come he is the only one that keeps saying the man is dead, when he is alive. Is he the one who killed Chime? That guy should go get a better thing to do with his life. As for you, u sound like a very bad excuse for an advocate of libel.

Odunnu: Never heard of him until now. I'm just looking at various possibilities

Sherlock Holmes: [size=14pt]he said there was no proof they were from the SSS....so how come the story is carrying SSS agents at the title instead of unknown gunmen and how come you have drawn a conclusion already? try something i call ''thinking'' for a change.[/size]

Odunnu: How do you know they were from SSS? How do you even know the story is real?

getukudo: And who is deranged?? Your supporting that all politicians die and you are better off than they are? Please! I pray that everybody takes up a govt position one day and then our kids will also pray for our deaths.

Demdem: Seems u are confused.

getukudo: Na u start thread, na u don attack people pass! ℓ☺ℓ

Patdedon: I heard they were playing tonto dike's song b4 d crash

getukudo: You write intelligently, but you are not.

bibina: but its true na! most of you here on NL are yahoo yahoo boyz and sundry criminals so what the heck!! even if all the present leaders drop dead, people with same mentality will replace them.......its soldier go soldier come!

aribisala0: No but nna gi is perplexed

Demdem: Seems u are confused.

gboss4sure: That demdem nigga benefits from subsidy money. so free him