The
Publisher of an online newspaper, The Trent, Aziza Uko has accused the Chief
Press Secretary to Information Minister, Joseph Mutah, of harassing her over a
story she posted on her medium on the 30th of March.
Uko who spoke in an email
conversation with Vanguard disclosed that Mutah who was angered by The Trent’s
headline on a story titled; “Buhari Knows That He Hasn’t Delivered The
Promised Change – Lai Mohammed” commanded her to drop the story.
She furthers, “We published a news release
from Lai Mohammed’s office yesterday. Only for Joe Mutah, who works for Lai
Mohammed, to call me that the headline is misleading. I happen to have
personally read the press release he mailed to us so I didn’t see anything
misleading about the headline and I told him so.
He
dropped the call. “A few minutes later I saw an email threat from him. I
happened to be awake and online.
I
fired off a reply spontaneous. Threats and intimidation are not tools of
governance in a democracy. In life, one should not feel like they know everything
or they are always right.
So
this morning, I shared it with a circle of friends for advise, asking if they
thought our headline was misleading and if they thought my response was
appropriate. Some of them work in the media and must have leaked the conversation
out to the press. I began to get enquirers from journalists.
I had to tell the truth about what happened. I
could forward you the emails if you really want to do a story.” She ended
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