AUTHORS OF FAKE NEWS MUST FACE TOUGHER PENALTIES! DID PRESIDENT BUHARI DIE?

ZION B-BC   NEWSLETTER.  

(Looking at Nigeria's Political Sytem from a godly Perspective).

A Publication of the Zion Faith Bible-Believing Church, Kpeyegyi, Abuja Nigeria. [VOL. 7. NO 243. 8thApril, 2018.} “…ONLY The Truth, Will Set You   Free! (John.8:32).

AUTHORS OF FAKE NEWS MUST FACE TOUGHER PENALTIES! DID PRESIDENT BUHARI DIE?

The Federal Republic of Nigeria Constitution, 1999, is resplendent of several manner of constitutional "freedoms", referred to as fundamental rights!
In Chapter IV, Sections 33 to 46, one is inundated with an avalanche of these rights - Rights to life; dignity of human person; personal liberty; fair hearing; Right to private and family life; Right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; to peaceful assembly and association; Right to freedom of movement; to acquire and own immovable property in Nigeria; etc - mouth-watering freedoms that would have made citizens of the defunct Communist Soviet Republics, old China and North Korea swoon with jealousy!

One of these freedoms is extended especially to journalists described as the PRESS, in Section 39 (1) - (3) (a) (b) as, "Right to freedom of expression and the press." Globally, members of the Press are described as the "Fourth Estate of the Realm," and the Nigerian Press, with specific assignment to checkmate governments excesses as the "watchdog", "watchman" or "ombudsman", and ensure good governance, diligence and accountability by those who hold in trust all private, public or political offices in the Nigerian nation, including the security agencies - the Armed Forces and the Police!

Outside of the constitutionally-backed Press which comprises of the Electronic and Print Media, there is now a THIRD FORCE MEDIA that is fast becoming a portent danger to the very existence of Nigeria as an independent nation!
The Social Website Media ( Faceboook, Twitter, Instagram), which was not given any mention anywhere in the Nigerian Constitution, has clandestially taken over, in a landslide manner, the entire spectrum of not only the social space but also, the political and economic life of the nation like an uncontrollable wild fire poised to wipe out all sacred legacies of the FOUNDING FATHERS and the government seems helpless to salvage the unacceptably and notorious situation?

THE SOCIAL MEDIA IN NIGERIA IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS OR INSTITUTIONS!
Many detractors who patronize the Social Media and masking under the guise of pseudo names, regularly unleashed libellous publications in the form of character assassination, hate speeches, unprintable abuses/curses etc, on the person of the ruling Party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), incumbent President/his management team and members of his family, without recourse to the fundamental rights of the citizens in question!

For now they seemed to be having a field day and believe they would escape justice but they are living a lie, because technology has the window to trap them as is being done in other climes! Very soon they will all be caught in the web of Rule of Law and be given the full dose of the medicine!

IS THE PRESS LICENCED TO PUBLISH FAKE NEWS?
The sacred profession of Journalism was given mention in the Nigerian and most global constitutions because "journalism is synonymous with processed information"! In the practice of the trade, journalist are warned to "leave out" information that could not be confirmed or substantiated, in order to avoid false publications that would attract litigations bordering on libel! They are also schooled to always procure and ascertain the "two sides of every story or information, and even the edge of the coin", before rushing to beat "deadlines", but in the last decade, the Nigerian Press also, like their foreign counterparts, threw caution to the wind and totally discarded the notion that the citizens whose characters were maligned also had constitutional protection as stipulated under HUMAN RIGHTS!

Thorough-bread journalists from time immemorial across the world have religiously adhered to the codes and ethics of the profession and had executed their beats creditably but in recent times - especially with the frenzied embrace of sophisticated information technology gadgets, unprocessed information in the form of FAKE NEWS, is now the order of the day!

Today, every Tom, Dick and Harry, could tweet from his CRIB, in any part of the world, concoct/proliferate untrue or fake news, disseminate it at a speed faster than light on social websites to cause disharmony, dissension, civil disobedience or even communal war in some cases!

CLANDESTINE ROLE OF THE MODERN PRESS IN NIGERIA!
In recent times, Nigeria has had its ugly share of damaging fake news, hate publications etc against constituted authorities, public figures/personalities, institutions and even against the incumbent Executive President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari.
Before and after the 2015 General elections were contested, won and lost, several Print and Electronic media indulged in dissemination of hate speeches, publications and advertorials with a view to truncating the nation's nascent democracy at  all cost because of selfish inordinate ambitions!
Daar Communications' Africa Independent Television (AIT), and the National Television Authority (NTA), including some prominent national newspapers occupied the frontline position in character assassination/smear campaigns against President Buhari in particular and were handsomely and promptly paid with the tax-payers money, while the unfortunate citizens were hacked down in cold blood on daily basis by insurgents!
Ex-President Ebele Jonathan, in his desperate bid to maintain status quo of "continuity", employed both the private and government electronic and print media to execute smear campaign publications in order to ensure that President Buhari was discredited before the electorate. He allegedly dipped his hands into the funds meant to execute the Boko Haram war to run his vicious campaign and in the process abandoned down-trodden Nigerians to daily assaults of the insurgents who then had the effrontery to “conquer" portions of Nigeria's territory in the North East as their Caliphate!

EXCERPTS FROM AIT'S ALLEGED FACEBOOK ACCOUNT ON FAKE NEWS!
In our Vol. 6, No. 183, of 12th February, 2016 we published the excerpts below:
"Not many people were surprised when a FACEBOOK  ACCOUNT credited to AFRICAN INDEPENDENT TELEVISION (AIT), ANNOUNCED THE RUMOURED DEATH OF PRESIDENT BUHARI in London, on the 23rd January, 2017, because that station, owned by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain, Raymond Dokpesi, was notorious for "mercenary" journalism of fabrication, falsehood  and distortion of facts for illicit monetary gains! The transmission of HATE SPEECHES video documentaries on AIT and its sister radio station, RAY POWER against the incumbent President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, during the electioneering campaigns of the 2015 General Elections, as contracted to DAAR Communications Plc, the umbrella body of both stations by ex-President Jonathan's Administration and the subsequent payment of billions of naira for THE HATCHET JOB, is still fresh in the memories of all Nigerians and political development observers around the world!

Although, DAAR Communications Plc, has denied both ownership and authorship of the FACEBOOK and its content; were they convincing?  Below are excerpts of the denial: "The attention of DAAR Communications Plc, has been drawn to a FACEBOOK Account purported being operated by our Organisation.”A report was published on the FACEBOOK that the incumbent President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari, who is currently on vacation in London has passed on. "We wish to state the following facts: It is falsehood dressed up as truth that we opened such FACEBOOK ACCOUNT. 
We did not publish nor know anything about the report. None of our correspondents in London filed such report.  The editorial policy of our Organisation is that any of our correspondents is mandated to file all the reports for vetting and approval before publication which can only originate from our headquarters. No correspondent could individually on his or her own decision publish or cause to be published any story. "The FACEBOOK Account is the brain child of a faceless and mischievous group whose despicable activities must be investigated by security agencies because of the unpleasant consequences.”We wish to state that the AIT runs an official on-line site fir News which is not available for use by outsiders.
"We dissociate ourselves completely from anything contained in the said report which is a figment of the imagination of the authors.”We also disown the so-called FACEBOOK Account, and have officially reported to FACEBOOK Managers." DO YOU BELIEVE?

THEY ARE AT IT AGAIN AND MUST BE STOPPED!
We have it on good authority that legislators of the 8th National Assembly (NASS), have mooted a Bill to stem the tide of FAKE NEWS publications in Nigeria and completely annihilate the evil attitude through very stiff penalties while Nigeria's Information Technology Gurus have reached advanced stages of detecting, arresting and prosecuting culpable persons without delay, because they are not excluded from the evil smear campaigns! All hands must be on deck to stop these enemies of STATE!  ‘’The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead’’ (Prov 11:8). 

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I am, yours sincerely, Dr. David B.A. Olufon, Resident Pastor and Editor. 08130669886, 08098194390.  08080243066. g-mail- dvdolufon@gmail.com.