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.

There's no smoke without fire. Behind every rumour there's an atom of truth

Ok

funkyibodude:
There's no smoke without fire. Behind every rumour there's an atom of truth

That is a lie.