Human Rights
Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has called on President Goodluck
Jonathan to caution his senior special assistant on media, Dr. Doyin Okupe to
stop engaging in unnecessary media war- fare with the legislative arm of
government as that would imperil the deepening of democracy and good governance
in Nigeria.
HURIWA in a
statement signed by its national coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and
national media officer, Zainab Yusuf said the confrontational postures adopted
by Okupe, will only portray the country before the global community as a highly
politically unstable polity and drive away willing foreign direct investments.
The group said
there are more decent way of going about the duties and functions of the
offices of the media affairs assistants to the president without necessarily
sounding highly condescending and disrespectful to properly constituted
authorities of other arms of government.
‘’There is
clearly a difference between war -time propaganda and professional media and
public affairs’ management of the person and office of the high office of the
President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria who in the first place was given
the mandate by the members of the general public for a specified tenure in
accordance with the tenets and principles of the constitution of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria of 1999 as amended, the group stated.
HURIWA also
carpeted the presidential aide for trying to undermine the constitutional
powers of the National Assembly by making “Phantom allegations” that the
hierarchy of the national legislature tried to rubbish the 2013 budget proposal
presented by President Jonathan on Wednesday October 10th 2012 “even when the
contrary is the case with all the recorded evidence available before the
dis-cerning members of the public.”
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