EDITORIAL :HATE SPEECH[S]:MATTERS ARISING

 EDITORIAL :HATE SPEECH[S]:MATTERS ARISING 

ALHAJI LAI MOHAMMED IS NIGERIA'S INFORMATION MINISTER AND HE NOW HAS A TOUGH JOB TO HEAL A DEEPLY DIVIDED NATION

One of the greatest opponents of hate speeches today in Nigeria has surprisingly got to be one of the people that actually helped to invent the social vice and took it to a pride of place in our national life :Alhaji Lai Mohammed,the Nigerian Minister for Information, Federal Republic of Nigeria.

He even has a professorial chair in this when he was the key propagandist for the now defunct Action Congress of Nigeria which later collapsed with others to form the All Progressives Congress[A.P.C.]

So good was he at this trade that he is one of the major reasons why today Buhari and not Jonathan is the President of the Nigerian nation.

The end they say justify the means ,it did not matter if his own statements affected any one then so long as in the end his political associates got their hold on political power.

Whether at press conferences ,seminars, workshops ,public exhibitions ,the man is seen campaigning seriously against hate speeches.

However analysts see this  new form of propaganda by the Buhari regime as self serving ,every  man born by a woman is a political animal with lists of needs and with desires and naturally once this are not met  then they have the rights to complain to air their views and even critical as the case may be so that who- ever is denying them will give  them what they truly deserve.

All over the world criticisms now branded hate speeches by the highly twisted Nigerian elites   is the tool or weapon used by the man on the streets to checkmate bad leadership as otherwise violence can happen where the people cannot freely air their opinions.

The likes of Alhaji Lai Mohammed should know that Nigeria like every democracy is not a nation in isolation and as such  what he calls hate speeches will not stop in as much as the leadership refuses to do what is right for its citizens at all times.

If a man's family was wiped away during the civil war,does Alhaji Lai Mohammed expects such a  man to have a tea party when he is talking to government officials when the issue is on restructuring or likely secession.

If a man lost his entire family and wealth to Boko Haram and the Fulani Herdsmen crisis does Alhaji Lai Mohammed expects such a man to feel good?

Instead of campaigning against hate speeches ,Alhaji Lai Mohammed should to the best of our knowledge devote his valuable time to telling his associates to stop stealing from the people's purse.

He should tell them to do what they have promised upon been elected to office by the people and where they cannot humanly meet up with some of their promises they should give reasons to this effect at all times.

It is only in Nigeria that the elected state official think that the people are his or her slave, otherwise power actually belongs to the people and not the other way round.

Alhaji Lai Mohammed will be treated well by history and even Paedia Express Multimedia Group in Lagos,Nigeria if he looks at issues on the front burner  of Nigerian politics dispassionately ..

While his campaigns on hate speeches is a good one but his approach is rather wrong ,he should rather direct his pleas to his associates and his colleagues to stop bribing journalists so that they can do a good job .

We do not have anything against Alhaji Lai Mohammed as a human being even though we once had a spat with him for lacking in integrity but we pray and do hope that he will do a good job on his latest assignment.

COPIED TO THE FOLLOWING MEDIA PUBLICS:
1]Amnesty International

2]International Federation of Human Rights

3]Human Rights Watch

4]Article 19

5]Committee to Protect Journalists

6]Index on Censorship

7]International Federation of Journalists

8]World Association of Newspapers

9]International Pen

10]International Press Institute

11]Reporters Without Borders

12]World Press Freedom Committee

13]United Nations  office for Liaison with NGOs

14]United Nations Human Rights Centre

15]The International Committee of the

 Red Cross and Red Crescent

16]Office of the United Nations

 High Commissioner for Refugees

17]Human Rights Internet.

18]International Service for Human Rights

19]UNESCO-IPDC[International Program me

 for the Development of Communications]