By our correspondent
Police Integrity Movement under the auspices of a civil society organisations, Concerned Citizens Leadership Integrity and Transparency Advocacy Initiative, CLITA, has punctured the Sahara Reporters report which indicated that the immediate past Inspector General of Police, IGP, is nursing a senatorial ambition.
In a statement in Abuja on Friday, the executive director of CLITA, Isaiah Davies Ijele, described Omoyele Sowore, the publisher of Sahara Reporters as a rabble-rouser who stock-in-trade is perpetual mischief, spewing of unverified lies which aimed to drag hard-earned reputation into the mud.
“This self-aclaimed Human Rights activist, Omoyele Sowore is a delusionist, congenital, and perpetual liar who should be disregarded. With these daily lies spewing by Sowore, it’s safe to say he’s suffering from obsessive-compulsive Disorder.
“The self-seeking activist is delusional because to contest for any elective office in Nigeria, one must be a registered member and identify with a political party. The former IGP left office barely two weeks ago, at what point did he register or identified with a political party”?
Sowore and his SaharaReporters are like intoxicated bandits, whose mission is to misinform, malign, and disrupt the peace of innocent Nigerians.
“Having served his fatherland meritoriously, former IGP Egbetokun is supposed to take his deserved rest, alas, mercenary by the name Omoyele Sowore will not give peace a chance. In the ill-fated report, published on SaharaReporters, they claimed IGP Egbetokun has refused to vacate his IGP House residence. By precedence, outgoing IGP’s are usually allowed enough time to get an apartment to enable them relocate peacefully.
“It’s on record that IGP Kayode Egbetokun’s predecessor, Usman Alkali Baba, remained in IGP’s resident for about four months before relocating. So, what is this brouhaha about an IGP who only left office less than two weeks ago? It’s clear that Omoyele Sowore and his tool for blackmail (SaharaReporters) are only victims of Main Character Syndrome, MCS,” Isaiah Davies Ijele fumed.
In similar vein, the SaharaReporters report, which claimed that Force Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyi, had been removed is false. It’s only a prove of lazy journalism because a move was actually made but had to be suspended.
“A credible medium that’s committed to upholding the ethics of journalism would have gone a bit further to confirm the authenticity of the information. Nigeria is a well respected country with respected mediums and journalists but with Sowore and his blackmail tool (SaharaReporters) a lot still needs to be done,” Ijele said.