The Minister of Police Affairs, Navy Captain Caleb Olubolade (rtd), has described Thursday’s bomb attack at the offices of Thisday newspapers in Abuja and some media houses in Kaduna as not only wicked, dastardly and cowardly, but calculated to muzzle public condemnation of the activities of terrorist groups in the country through the media.
According to Olubolade, for these enemies of the society, who have not been able to advance the cause of their violent acts to now resort to attacking the media, only goes to show that their desire is to just cause confusion in the polity and make the country ungovernable.
Olubolade assured Nigerians that the government will never fold its arms and watch the desecration of people’s right to freely express themselves as exemplified by the attack on the media houses, which he refers to as the voice of the people and conscience of the society.
He commiserates with the management, staff, victims and their families and prays for the repose of the souls of the dead.
He charged the affected media houses and others not be deterred by the ugly incident in rendering their valuable services to the nation.
The minister advised Nigerians to be more security conscious and provide information to security agencies, noting that security is the responsibility of all.