festacman:
In as much as vigilance and ventilation are needed to keep our democracy alive, the simple truth is that the real situation is very far from the picture Punch Newspaper is painting. There is freedom of speech in Nigeria and on daily basis tens of anti-government and extremely anti-Buhari articles get published in both print and online media. If there wasn't, staunch critics like Femi Fani Kayode with all his misleading, mischievous and insulting posts would have been in jail.

Unfortunately, DSS personnel got carried away in their bid to tame the defiant Yele Sowore that they tactlessly played into his original intention of making himself a hero of democracy by that act of gangsterism in court premises. Now, the enemies of government including displaced and embittered PDP moneybags have subtly moved into action to discredit Buhari's administration in both local and international media. To counter this dangerous development, I think government should reach out to critical civil society stakeholders to restate its commitments to democratic principles.

However, one thing is certain, because Buhari's presidency is very NECESSARY for the INEVITABLE disruptions of the existing political and economic orders that will make way for new orders, it will survive this onslaught like the ones that came in the past.

The action of the DSS clearly discredits General Buhari's government already. Even you admit that DSS personnel lost their heads and got carried away yet rather than hold the government accountable by bringing sanity into the system and punishing the DSS idiots as well as their commanders/superiors including even the DG, here you are going political and calling regular citizens and members of the press enemies of the government. Who is the enemy really? The one that brought ridicule through its failure to respect the rule of law or those demanding accountability and that they comply with laid-down principles of law? When you cannot speak the truth to power, you are in fact the worst ENEMY ever.

"If you decide to call him Major General, he wasn’t dashed the rank, he earned it. So, you are not completely out of order. The fact that you can do so is even another testimony to press freedom in Nigeria."

this is just gbamunism....

epic....

let them keep on talkin....