The International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos, Nigeria on Thursday
26 June expressed concern over continuing bombing attacks in the country.
IPC said the recent blasts in
Abuja and Kaduna showed that genuine commitment and more concerted efforts were
required to check the menace.
Mr Lanre Arogundade, IPC
Director, said “To do otherwise is to turn Nigeria into a complete jungle where
living would be perpetually nasty and indeed very brutish.”
Arogundade noted that it was
particularly disheartening that yet another journalist had been consumed by the
ongoing violence with the death of Suleiman Bissala, Managing Editor (Northern
Operations) of The New Telegraph Newspaper, during the blast that occurred in
Abuja yesterday.
While commiserating with the
management and staff of the organisation, he said it should serve as another
wake-up call on the media to hold those who should be responsible for ending
the violence accountable to the people in line with its constitutional
responsibility.
“The media must now give
voice to all and set in motion a popular national debate on collective actions
that can be taken as it is un-acceptable for a few to be using acts of individual
terrorism to hold the majority to ransom,” he stated.
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