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| Kayode Adeniyi, FCT SWAN Chairman |
I consider the purported ban of the
duo of Ezeocha Nze of TheGuardian newspaper and Romanus Ugwu of The Sun
newspaper, by the illegal and non-juristic Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) as
arrant nonsense, a comedy of sorts and the mania of a bedlam living in a beldam.
SWAN, particularly, Abuja Chapter,
should reject and condemn the act in its entirety immediately. SWAN should also
order that the activities, personnel and other related agencies of the NFF as
presently constituted must be blacked out until this reversal step is taken.
Three, the SWAN should demand for a
public apology from the illegal body which we are still tolerating. These are
people who ordinarly should be in jail rotting away who unfortunately found
themselves governing issues of football claiming they are banning journalists
from covering football
Has anyone told them that the
GlassHouse is a commonwealth managed by tax payers’ fund? Are they aware that
the place is not their father’s home? It is a public place.
The NFF has no single right to bar
any journalist from having access to a public office such as the nation's
football administrative secretariat. They also do not have any right of
discipline over any journalist.
The best the NFF could have done is
to seek redress in the law court should any journalist libel it. Ironically,
since two courts in the land have declared them non-juristic, they cannot sue
neither can they be sued.
One will expect all journalists,
particularly, the Sports beat, to rise in defense of our colleagues. I can
assure myself that they will not. Many of our colleagues have swined at their
table and cannot tell them the truth in its clear crystal colours. Was I not
the first journalist to be banned for life by the charlattans?
Like I presaged, it was my turn
then, they will do it again. Fools. They did it again. Soon, they will regulate
what journalists can write. Soon, they will ask journalists to submit their
reports for approval before publishing.
Will FCT SWAN rise to this occasion
and show it has balls? Will the National SWAN take this opportunity to show us
that members’ welfare is aparamount interest for why they got the office?
BANNING ANY PERSON FROM ANY PUBLIC ORGANISATION LIKE THE NFF IS AN INDICATION OF FEAR!! THE FEAR THAT THE WRITER MAY TAKE OVER THE APPLAUSE OR THE LEADERSHIP OF THE ORGANISATION ARE TOO FAR FROM THE TRUTH THE WRITERS HAVE EXPOSED. THE WRITERS, WHO ARE BOLD TO EXPRESS THE TRUTH AS THEY SEE IT AND REPORTED WHAT THE BANNING ORGANISATION DOES NOT WANT REPORTED!!
ReplyDeleteWHAT ELSE, CAN ONE SEE AS AN EXCUSE TO BAN ANYBODY FROM EXPRESSING THEMSELVES AS TRAINED JOURNALISTS?
WE TALK OF AND CRITICIZE NIGERIAN PRESENT LEADERS FOR USING INTIMIDATION AS A WEAPON IN MANY CASES, TO SUPRESS & SCARE THE FEW BRIGHT MINDS OF TRUTH & HONESTY IN OUR MIDST.
LITTLE MINDS, WHO ARE SCARED STIFF ARE ON THE PROWL HERE! THE NFF PEOPLE DON’T DESERVE TO REMAIN IN OFFICE FOR A DAY. THEY SHOULD BE SACKED!