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The Association of Ebonyi Indigenes Socio-Cultural successful the Diaspora (AEISCID) has condemned a ‘faceless group’ purportedly nether the aegis of Concerned Youths for Distinguished Senator David Umahi, demanding an apology from an Arise News anchor, Rufai Oseni, implicit his altercation with the Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, during caller TV show.
The Ebonyi Indigenes successful diaspora said the youths, described arsenic “scanty group, looking forlone, dejected and similar an outnumbered horse”, neither represented the wide dependable of Ebonyi youths nor the tone of radical of the state.
In a connection released Saturday successful Abuja, signed by the AEISCID’s President, Ambassador Pascal Oluchukwu, it called connected genuine Ebonyi youths to emergence supra manipulation, absorption connected their future, and garbage to beryllium utilized to onslaught journalists oregon institutions that basal for accountability and transparency.
According to Oluchukwu, the protestation by the alleged Ebonyi younker against the AriseTV anchor, for each intent and intent and by each disposable fact, was the handiwork of a fewer misguided individuals, galore of whom are known erstwhile debased people governmental appointees oregon members of the now-disbanded Ebubeagu militia who served nether Umahi’s administration.
“Their actions lone reenforce the civilization of sycophancy and intolerance that characterized Umahi’s uncommonly dictatorial 8 years successful office.”
On the verbal warfare of words during the interview, “AEISCID notes that the AriseTV interrogation was a regular nonrecreational engagement wherever a writer sought clarification connected the outgo of national roadworthy projects nether the Ministry of Works successful enactment with the extant provisions of Section 22 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria which provides that the Press indispensable astatine each times clasp authorities astatine each levels accountable to the governed.
“We enactment that specified questions arsenic posed by fearless Rufai Oseni to a nationalist serviceman similar the Minister of Works Engr. David Umahi connected the nonstop outgo per kilometer of the coastal road are cardinal to transparency and nationalist accountability; values that each nationalist servant ought to embrace, not resist. It is truthful regrettable that alternatively than addressing the substance of nationalist concern, definite individuals successful Ebonyi person chosen to lend themselves arsenic instruments of Umahi’s onslaught connected the messenger, attempting to intimidate property state and conceal accusation astir the precise enactment records that has near the state’s system and institutions successful dire straits.”
The Ebonyi group, however, said during the 8 years of Governor Umahi successful Ebonyi, journalists were allegedly banned from Government House and immoderate physically assaulted for asking questions connected accountability, seeking clarifications oregon probity successful governance.
“Transparency demands that nary nationalist official, past oregon present, should beryllium seen to beryllium supra oregon arsenic beyond the scope of the law.”
While calling connected the Arise News, the Nigeria Broadcasting Commission (NBC), the Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON), and so the Nigerian nationalist to disregard the antics of the self-serving radical who question to shield almighty figures from accountability, the connection said the bulk of Ebonyi citizens, astatine location and abroad, are embarrassed by the behaviour of that protestation and by the precise interrogation that exposed a temperament unbefitting of a nationalist officer.
“AESID calls connected Senator Umahi, present Minister of Works, to comport himself with the dignity his existent bureau demands, to respond to nationalist inquiries with facts and humility, and to desist from actions oregon utterances that further harm the representation of Ebonyi State and its people.”
The Ebonyi Indigenes radical discribed the authorities arsenic a onshore of proud, intelligent, and peace-loving radical who cherish hard work, fairness, and truth; not rooted successful sycophancy and propaganda.
“As we person done consistently, AEISCID volition proceed to talk for justice, bully governance, and the corporate dignity of Ebonyi people—wherever they may be,” it stated.
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