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London Protest: CSOs Warns Blackmailers To Desist From Campaign Of Calumny Against Mallam Mele Kyari, Vows To Report To NBA

The Empowerment for Unemployed Youth Initiative and Coalition of Civil Society Groups have described the recent London protest against the former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, NNPCL, Mallam Mele Kyari as a campaign of calumny by some sponsored unpatriotic people describing it as uncalled for.
They stated this at a Press Conference this Sunday in Abuja.
Speaking on behalf of the Empowerment for Unemployed Youth Initiative and the Civil Society Groups, the Convener, Comrade Igwe Ude Umanta said the protest was another mutation of the already busted blackmail.
“It is now even visible to the blind that these shenanigans have nothing to do with any crusade against corruption and some really corrupt interests are instead, on a mission to blackmail Mallam Kyari; a plot we suspect he has vehemently, and rightly so, refused to be cajoled into and this has indeed become an exaggerated joke” He stated
‘Recall that this reprehensible and evil project started with a phantom group, Concerned Citizens Against Corruption, which was convened by a now repentant Kabir Matazu and we challenged that group to a public debate about its existence, antecedents, operations and the allegations they were making against Mallam Kyari. But instead, Matazu made a volte face, apologised, retracted all his statements and petitions and confessed to having been misled and sponsored. That was supposed to be enough to rest this matter’.
“But as persons possessed by evil spirits, they continued by mutating into another fake group, which claimed to be a group of 500 lawyers and went by the name: Guardians of Democracy and Rule of Law. This in itself is a name given by the sponsors to that group. But it is a name in which we know its origin, usage and operations. In other words, those who took up this name for their public mischief know absolutely nothing about it and we exposed and busted them as fake and sponsored, with unassailable facts. We went further to formally report them to the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) who we believe are now investigating them. And since they are busted and can no longer impersonate the very noble legal profession for their shameful and nefarious activities, their operation and further public appearance became impossible thereby ending forever that particular mutation and lie called Guardians of Democracy and the Rule of Law, or lawyers group’.
According to him, for the public to know that every exposure we have made of these fake groups is fact-based, we challenge them to appear again anywhere in that their number and wild claims. They are nothing but an established fake group on a paid mission to harass, embarrass, blackmail and taint a patriotic citizen with criminality.
In his words “Having failed completely in all their antics in Nigeria, they have now moved to the United Kingdom, particularly in London where some Africans, not necessarily Nigerians, who are jobless and facing multidimensional economic hardship are easily procured for protests on matters they know absolutely nothing about. The whole charade of a protest against Mallam Kyari in London is ridiculous. It exposes those hirelings who pose as citizens in diaspora, who are interested in their country. Those guys know nothing beyond what they were paid for”.
“For instance, how is somebody who has not been invited by any security or anti-graft agency be on the run? How can someone who is not under investigation be seeking sanctuary against an imaginary sin? How can someone who is not under any kind of trial be evading prosecution and justice? Many Nigerians used to think that it is everybody who lives abroad, particularly in the Europe and America that has sense. But as you can see, these ones are crass illiterates trying to survive abroad. So they could do anything, least of which is tarnishing the image of an innocent patriot. If you check, some of those guys may even be criminals or ex-convicts” Comrade Umanta explained
“Note that at the time of that charade called protest against Mallam Kyari in London, the man was nowhere near the United Kingdom. That is a clear indication that the purpose of that protest in pure campaign of calumny, blackmail, tactical defamation and aggravated mischief. and we are also aware that in continuation of this evil plot, they want to organise another protest in the United States of America and other parts of Europe, particularly, Germany. This is to tell you the extent of the desperation of these disgruntled elements. But they will fail, except if there is any genuine wrongdoing by Mallam Kyari”.
The Convener sledged that the people behind this nauseating campaign against Kyari know that it has completely nothing to do with corruption or allegations thereto. They simply feel that if they embarrass the man enough, he may be forced to bow to their blackmail and seek a “settlement” in their criminal venture. While we do not ever see that happening because Mallam Kyari already said emphatically that he is ready to account for his stewardship, we also want to promise them that we will continue to expose and bring to ridicule (because that is what it deserves), all their gimmicks.
“This London protest is a very poor outing and an outdated format in the business of blackmail, especially because you cannot be asking for the deportation of a person who is not on the run and who has no reason in the world to run away. This one again having failed, we are watching the next form or shape they may take in their serial mutations, transmutation, osmosis and alchemy. We will be here to expose and bust them till they see the need to have a modicum of shame and rest”.
“We are seeking more facts to find out more of the faces behind the mask. And we will not hesitate to call them out in due course. They should not think that they have the monopoly of embarrassing and harassing law-abiding citizens and we cannot thank the media enough for their vigil on this matter, always balancing the reports and exposing the lies. Let us continue in this sanitary project. The Civil Society is a responsible and respected part of every civilised world.
and we must not allow these mice to pollute that beautiful space” the Convener added