Daily Trust Again!

The recent tirade of First Lady Aisha Buhari against the Daily Trust brings to mind an incident in Nigeria in 1973.

It had to do with a journalist working for Nigerian observer but based in Port Harcourt, The Late Minere Amakiri, who

Photo Credit: Daily Trust
carried a story of striking teachers on the day Governor Alfred Diete Spiff of Rivers State, South South, Nigeria, turned 31.

Unlike the First Lady, this celebrant had the hapless journalist arrested and his hair shaven with a broken bottle.

This is something for which the governor would have been made to pay heavily but nothing happened. It was like they say, the dark days of military rule.

Today as Nigerians are grappling with Covid - 19, Insecurity, job losses, tariff hikes in the energy sector among other things, the first family is celebrating a Wedding and showing off pictures.

Reacting to the cartoon of the Daily Trust on the Wedding, the First Lady Aisha Buhari rightly pointed out that children of public officers have a right to Wed. Correct Madam, but the photographs were uncalled for and smacked of insensitivity at a time when people were calling on the President to justify his mandate.

Sure those photographs were just the wrong response to the despair in the land.

Nobility they say entails obligation. There are things Public Officers cannot afford to do carelessly. One of them is public celebrations whether official or un official.

Continually, public service is what it is and the mood of the public just has to count. The bravery of Daily Trust is commendable at this time that people are wondering if they have anyone on their side.

A problem shared is haif solved. Daily Trust and other media outlets should not relent in siding with the people. The terrain may be murky but ultimately it pays to side with the people for the Voice of the people is the voice of God.

Not long ago it was Femi Fani Kayode to the cleaners, next they are taking on the First Family.

Who is next?