NUJ President Laments Insecurity In Nigeria

The National President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Alhaji Muhammed Garba has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to urgently tackle the state of insecurity in the country.

The President who catalogued the spate of bomb blasts, kidnapping, robberies and the Save Our Soul (SOS) calls on lives and property, said “the issue of insecurity is threatening our nascent democracy.”

Alhaji Garba who spoke in Asaba, the Delta state capital, last Wednesday, told the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Comrade Ovuozorie Macaulay who received him on behalf of Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan that the continued payment of ransom to kidnappers, aiding and abating the activities of Boko Haram sect and suicide bombers, is now threatening the nation’s integrity.

He condemned the spate of violence, killings, burning of houses and destruction of properties in the Northern part of Nigeria and kidnapping in the South-South zone of the country, saying “it has become worrisome and threatening national unity.”

Garba who was on two-day working visit to the state, also harped on the insurance scheme for journalists, maintaining that the hazards in journalism profession has called for it.

He flayed casualisation and quackery in the profession, even as he said the union has worked out modalities on sanctioning media organisations that fail in their offer of appointment’s terms.

National President of NUJ, Comrade Mohammed Garba, who  has began a two-day tour of the Chapels of the Union in the oil and gas Delta State was received on arrival by professional journalists in the state, led by Comrade Norbert Chiazor, Delta state chairman of NUJ.

The visit to Delta State forms part of the Union’s assessment of the role of the media in national development and the progress of democracy in Nigeria.