The Presidency said yesterday that the clampdown on the print media by soldiers is in order.
The act which the Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN) condemned as an attack of FREE SPEECH by soldiers. Adding that certain newspapers such as LEADERSHIP, DAILY TRUST, The NATION and PUNCH were the target of the military harassment
Senior Special Assistant to the President, Doyin Okupe told journalists in Abuja that the country’s security is at stake and “you cannot neglect security threats because we are living in trying times.”
But he claimed that President Goodluck Jonathan has no hand whatsoever in the continuing assault on the print because as he said, the soldiers’ action runs contrary to his principal’s political belief.
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