by Eze Eluchie
In appraising the role of journalists,
particularly of the print media, in formulating discourse and
agenda-setting in Nigeria’s skewed socio-political environment, the
reaction of some media outlets to two similar events which thankfully occurred
near simultaneously, go to expose deep rooted schism that further
underline the need for a restructuring and renegotiation of the
contraption known and referred to as Nigeria.
The deployment of
senior officers by both the Nigeria Army and the Nigeria Police Force
is noteworthy. Whilst some media outlets (notoriously The Nation
Newspapers) hit the streets with frivolous allegations made by
unverifiable and spurious entities against redeployment's made by the
Nigerian Army which has Lt. General Azubuike Ihejirika, as the Chief of
Army Staff, the same media outlets went comatose when the Inspector
General of Police, MD Abubakar announced a redeployment of Police
officers which was definitely geographically lopsided.
The fact
that a competent Judicial Panel of Inquiry, headed by now retired
Supreme Court Justice, Niki Tobi, had recommended MD Abubakar (the
present Police Chief) for retirement from the Police Force, well over a
decade ago on account of his being a religious bigot, apparently was
insufficient for the media to further question the rationale and
objectives of the skewed redeployment in the Police Force.
Let’s restructure and renegotiate our contraption whilst the sun is still up.
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=113408%3Ashake-up-in-police-as-igp-redeploys-33-cps&Itemid=425
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