Charly Boy has commended the journalist who rejected
and exposed Prophet TB Joshua's purported N50,000 bribe to buy over the conscience of journalists and thereby
prevent them from writing uncomplimentary reports about the SCOAN's building
collapse in which 115 persons were killed. According to him, the honours were
conferred on deserving and not so deserving individuals, while Ibekwe was left
out.
Arise, O compatriots,
Let's serve our Fatherland
With love and strength and faith!
Let's serve our Fatherland
With love and strength and faith!
How hard service must
be in a decadent society like ours where words like credibility, honesty, honor,
truthfulness, professionalism and integrity are fast becoming extinct and
rapidly being replaced by corruption, greed sharpness, evil, materialistic lust,
the list is endless! That's how
deep the rot is. However my
story today no be dat yarn....
National awards were
given a few days ago to deserving and not so deserving Nigerians. Honorary
awards are meant to be given in recognition for exceptional achievements,
integrity and distinction. So therefore, I hereby confer my own nationalist
award of Officer of the Order of
the Niger, OON to
Mr. Nicholas Ibekwe.
Mr. Nicholas Ibekwe.
I'm sure so many of you
are wondering who that is and yes until a few days ago, I didn't even know who
he was.
He is a young journalist who was bold enough to chose a path of integrity, honestly and professionalism against all odds of being a minority and chose to speak for the truth.
He is a young journalist who was bold enough to chose a path of integrity, honestly and professionalism against all odds of being a minority and chose to speak for the truth.
Our minds have become
so beclouded with the truth as being shaded that when we come in contact with
it,we have a repelling approach to it and may even begin to see those who dare
to be bold and speak out as over sabis or ITK's ( I too know ).but really,
should that come as a surprise to anybody In a society where morals are eroding,
and people have succeeded in convincing themselves that the truth is no longer
important.
Our minds are so closed
because when we see the truth we can’t even trust it based on the fact that for
so long, lies have been exchanged for the truth and now we are caught in-between
what is really true and what are lies and thus, the confusion of what is right
and what is wrong begins.
Mr.
Nicholas Ibekwe chose to speak about the alleged bribe
money that was given to them to write a 'good' story about the collapse of the
synagogue building. There were 15 journalists there and 750 naira was shared.
Only one person chose to cry foul! one person chose to standout, one person
chose to speak the truth.
For a very long time
now, the stone have been left unturned concerning what really goes on in this
country. The rich and privileged do whatever they like and as it is the norm
nothing happens, Because we all have been corrupted by weakness and
fear.
You hear of the issue
for a while and like the wind, it simply blows away. For instance, till now, we are all confused about
who’s responsible for the money
smuggled into South-Africa, CAN President Oritsejafor or the Federal Government,
we are yet to hear the truth. Like joke, the fight for #bringbackourgirls is
gradually quieting. We never know what is really going on.
Till date, the allegations against Major
General Abubakar Mohammed has not been clarified but the soldiers involved have
been sentenced to death, no digging, no probing. If they did, we never
heard.
When it becomes a crime
to report freely criminal activities,then it becomes obvious that leadership is
made up of criminals. QED.
What injustice! It
takes a little mistake from a less privileged man and his life would be no good
from thence forth. I would ask, was the law made only for the
poor?
I would say it clearly
that what journalist Nicholas Ibekwe did is something
I haven’t seen in a million years
just to exaggerate a bit. I have been silent about it but have been following
the news surrounding the alleged bribe given by T.B Joshua to Journalists to
shade the
truth. Hummmmmmm
truth. Hummmmmmm
To me it came as a
surprise that in this rot, there are a few who are still bold enough to do the
right thing. Yeah, people are saying he is an opportunist but I would ask is it
not better to be an opportunist with the right thing than an opportunist with
the wrong thing? All the journalists who went there allegedly received the bribe
were opportunist, as they chose 50,000 over the truth. Others are saying
Nicholas Ibekwe declared self-righteousness, but I
would say he declared the truth, is it because he was the first who thought of
the right thing to do and came
out with it?
out with it?
As a celebrity and a
journalist myself, I know how hard it is out there, we are all facing this
thing, although everybody own get em level. I understand, just like I understand
with my okada boys dem and poor people who need assistance, I do the same thing
for the journalists like I do for them. I call mine ‘white envelops’,
not
given to them as a bribe but as a fact that being in the game I understand the hustle. I don’t care what people say about me in the media so long as whatever you are saying is not based on assumptions but facts. When journalism fails to report with truth and objectivity, abuse of professionalism ensues.
given to them as a bribe but as a fact that being in the game I understand the hustle. I don’t care what people say about me in the media so long as whatever you are saying is not based on assumptions but facts. When journalism fails to report with truth and objectivity, abuse of professionalism ensues.
My most recent
encounter of that with a publisher was the propaganda about my being gay. Many
platforms carried it yes but why did I sue only National Mirror and Daily
independent? The answer is very simple.
When you write a story that has not be adequately researched and backed with
facts, you avoid debasing a person's credibility and
integrity.
The truth is a bitter
pill that only very few people like myself fight for it and it is for this fight
of truth that this matter has been taken to court. The next hearing will be
presided on the 9th of October in Lagos state high court. I hope the world is
watching because I want justice. And I go so shout if it is denied
me.
I’ve never had any beef
with T.B Joshua, in fact when I was PMAN president, he helped us financially
with a few of our programs and I am grateful. But my focus is not him, my focus
is that this young man did a right thing and should be rewarded. People do evil
all the time and they are applauded for it, why is it so difficult to applaud an
uncommon good. Many lives (about 115) were lost in that fall, who is going to
account
for it?
for it?
We’ve been kept in the
dark for too long; this should come as a breath of fresh air. We need people who
can tell us the true position of things as it is, not sugar coating and shading
the truth from the populace.
If not for this my
‘brokage’ thing going on with me right now I would want to do more however the
Charly boy foundation is pledging 300,000 naira for any journalist who shows
remarkable intergrity in the discharge of his duties and can write and speak the
truth no matter the odds.
I hope
Nicholas Ibekwe is reading this, I want to meet you, I want to congratulate you,
I would love to reward you for your boldness. You have not only been professional as a journalist, you have also be courageous.
Your boldness must never go unnoticed or
unrewarded. There is God. If we make it
a habit of not rewarding people who make an attempt to do good, then evil will
reign supreme in this country and we all will hate
ourselves.
The reality is that a
small subset of the population have been working, conspiring, for years against
the rest of us in an effort to completely own and control Nigeria and everyone
in it. The shitty system and the country we have today is a direct result of
this, the ultimate conspiracy. That's why there are a lot of rifrafs in power,
that and the fact that the majority of my people are ignorant of this conspiracy
against them. Hummmmm there is Godooooo.
We should all learn to stand for the truth and the right thing even when everyone would be against us for doing the right thing. We are already down as a people and as a nation, what else do we have to lose, we should stand for the truth and protect the right thing at all times...at least from now on.”