OPEN LETTER TO THE VETERAN JOURNALIST:MALLAM KABIRU YUSUF OF DAILY TRUST NEWSPAPERS,ABUJA,NIGERIA

OPEN LETTER TO THE VETERAN JOURNALIST:MALLAM KABIRU YUSUF

OF DAILY TRUST NEWSPAPERS,ABUJA,NIGERIA

Dear Sir,

with profound respect to your position as a senior gate keeper in the art  and science of journalism and by far my senior in age and in the profession at any level.

Your brand ,Daily Trust Newspapers ,Abuja,Nigeria ,has come a very long way within a very short time and i do pray and hope that one day you and your team can get rid of the cancer of hypocrisy in your organization in due course.

You are a member of at least to the best of my knowledge of a group ,The Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria [N.P.A.N] and to the best of my knowledge again have done more harm than  any good to the profession in the last 17 years or so of my involvement to this noble profession and which is why each time i see your group making press statements i refer to you people as "Charlie-Charlie" in the indian movies,a moniker for a comedian or a highly unserious fellow.

it is instructive to note that  a merchant like Chief Nduka Obaigbena who usually is said to tell his reporters that he had given them the Thisday Newspapers identity card and should use it to extort money from people and wondered why they were complaining of unpaid salaries is Your President honestly i cannot tell the kind of leadership such a character trait will provide,please do forgive me if my expectations of you people is beyond human comprehension.

Honestly,i will not have bothered to write you at all but i will have just let you enjoyed your retirement but you are a Fellow of the Media profession and out of respect have decided to call on you.

When i burnt the effigy of The Guardian ,The Nation and that of The Comet Newspapers on at least two different occasions to protest the forgery of my news room reports it was in my rights to do so as no one was willing to defend me or fight to defend me in the profession at the time.

I find it very strange that all of you at N.P.A.N,The Nigerian  Guild of Editors[NG.E],The Daily Trust Newspapers do not know or simply have chosen to forget that Journalism like every other profession   globally has its ethics or culture/tradition and this is what i lay strict adherence in following in teh discharge of my duties on a daily basis.

i Abdulmumini ireyi Adeku did not create  the rules neither did set to introduce new one's but met them on the ground at least 300 to 400 years after the profession was actually kick started and so i beg of you to distant your brand from unethical practices .

Couple of years ago,a British newspaper ,News of the World owned by the Billionaire Australian ,Mr Rupert Murdoch was forced to pay millions of pounds sterling in compensations to people for hacking  but yet still had to leave the trade due to loss in confidence by the U.K. public.

My dear elder brother in the trade Mallam Kabir is hacking too different from forgery ,well i leave you to do work the arithmetic out mentally .

Have you noticed that the CNN people seems to have stopped its African  media awards after they noticed the presence of  Mr Debo Adeshina on their judges panel in a protest mail i wrote to its founder, Mr Ted Turner.

i cannot say emphatically what can happen in the future as the awards can still come  later but if the CNN people here about this latest incident they will feel justified to have stopped it as the Nigerian press have refused to obey simple rules and regulations .

So where the entire Nigerian press queued behind the criminal lots at The Guardian and The Nation Newspapers for promoting indecency ,indiscipline, the rest of the civilized world dealt with it by sacking the entire CNN award committee as i think and by making the News of the World leave the trade because of despicable acts which brought the profession into disrepute .

In NIgeria,we have being doing nothing to encourage professionalism but boost crass mediocrity.

i wish you well in retirement and may God guide you in all of your undertakings now and into the future ,i also pray that God will help you in decision making in the future, amen.

Thanks,

Yours Faithfully,

Abdulmumini Adeku,

Founder,

Paedia Express Multimedia Group

TO THE FOLLOWING:

Mannir Dan Ali,Chief Executive officer/Editor-in-Chief

Abhay Desai,Chief Operating officer

Mahmud Jega,Associate Director/Deputy Editor-in-Chief

Aliu Akoshile ,Associate Director,Business Strategies

Nasiru Abubakar,Editor.

 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]