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Somali Journalists Demand Prime Minister to Call Deputy Minister of Information to order
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ASOJ and NUSOJ are dismayed that Mr Abdishakur Ali Mire did not only violate, dishonor and abandon the constitution of Somalia and national office he is holding but is laboring to deny lasting media freedom.
National Union of Somali Journalists
(NUSOJ) and Associated Somali Journalists (ASOJ) have watched with concern the
spate of power abuses by the Deputy Minister of Information of Somali Federal
Government Mr Abdishakur Ali Mire.
The latest being an organization of security
operatives by Deputy Minister of Information to intimidate and arrest
journalists and their leaders in a bid to silence outspoken and critical
journalists who came out to criticize obnoxious media law.
ASOJ and NUSOJ are dismayed that Mr Abdishakur
Ali Mire did not only violate, dishonor and abandon the constitution of Somalia
and national office he is holding but is laboring to deny lasting media
freedom.
Deputy Minister of Information is reported to be
working as a project agent for foreign institutions in a move to impel for
foreign organizations interests and to degrade independent media of Somalia. Mr
Abdishakur adapted to disgrace recurrently credible voices in Somali media in
exchange of personal benefits from foreign entities.
One of the hallmarks of any emerging democracy
in Somalia is respect for fundamental rights and the rule of law. Violation of
this time-honored value by Mr Abdishakur Ali Mire constitutes not only a breach
of trust, but also an invitation to anarchy and enmity between media community
and government.
It is all the more worrying when this violation
is done by a deputy Minister of the Federal government who ought not only to
hold out himself as the protector of citizens rights, but a key ambassador of
the new federal Administration.
The Deputy Minister is advised to stop playing
self-seeking politics with media freedom and journalist rights, especially
risked media workers that do not have the wherewithal or access to protection
and slush funds from foreign organizations.
Rather than embark on a campaign of calumny
against the media houses, journalist organisations and their leaders and a
laborious attacks against the independent media, Somali journalists advise the
deputy Minister to immediately toe the path of honour by recognising rights of
journalists, discontinue undermining independent media, end dividing media and
stop serving foreign agenda at expense of Somali journalists.
NUSOJ and ASOJ are saddened by the fact that for
most of his tenure, Abdishakur Ali Mire has been embroiled in a fight against
independent media instead of growing the media sector, and urge Prime Minister
Abdi Farah Shirdoon Saaid to call the Deputy Minister of Information Mr
Abdishakur Ali Mire to order before he does incalculable harm in the name of
the government.
By Nusoj General Secretary Omar Faruk Osman
and Asoj Chairman Dahir Alasow
Email: [email protected]
Email: [email protected]
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Somali Journalists Demand Prime Minister to Call Deputy Minister of Information to order
ASOJ and NUSOJ are dismayed that Mr Abdishakur Ali Mire did not only violate, dishonor and abandon the constitution of Somalia and national office he is holding but is laboring to deny lasting media freedom.