BY DANLAMI NMODU
Abuja -based Public Interest Lawyers’ League,PILL has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to Sack ,General Andrew Owoye Azazi, the national security adviser.PILL made this appeal today in its statement condemning the bomb blasts that hit Thisday offices.
PILL in statement ,emailed to Newsdiaryonline, by Abdul Mahmud the League’s president said “Once again, we call on President Jonathan Goodluck to sack without delay his National Security Adviser, General Azazi. Clearly, with one bomb attack too many, he has failed in his (advisorial) remit”
The league condemned the bomb explosion at Thisday newspapers. “..May we use the medium to deplore the attacks on the offices of ThisDay Newspapers in Utako/Jabi area of Abuja.
“No matter the fundamental disagreements individuals or groups may have against the newspaper, the newpapers and other newspapers and their owners and staff have the right to practice their day. The Press as the fourth estate of the realm must be allowed to discharge the role given to it by our Constitution. We call on the law enforcement agencies to bring the perpertrators of the attacks on ThisDay to book and with the urgency that it deserves, as well.
“Though details are still sketchy; but we solidarise and empathise with the publishers of ThisDay and commiserate with those who may have been injured or killed in the attacks.
Read the full statement (which was sent along with the PILL position on the subsidy probe published moments ago):
BREAKING NEWS-ATTACK ON THISDAY
As the attached statement goes out, may we use the medium to deplore the attacks on the offices of ThisDay Newspapers in Utako/Jabi area of Abuja.
No matter the fundamental disagreements individuals or groups may have against the newspaper, the newpapers and other newspapers and their owners and staff have the right to practice their day. The Press as the fourth estate of the realm must be allowed to discharge the role given to it by our Constitution.
We call on the law enforcement agencies to bring the perpertrators of the attacks on ThisDay to book and with the urgency that it deserves, as well.
Though details are still sketchy; but we solidarise and empathise with the publishers of ThisDay and commiserate with those who may have been injured or killed in the attacks.
Once again, we call on President Jonathan Goodluck to sack without delay his National Security Adviser, General Azazi. Clearly, with one bomb attack too many, he has failed in his (advisorial) remit.
Abdul Mahmud
President,
Public Interest Lawyers League-PILL
26th April 2012
