CNN has just aired a Pulitzer-grade exclusive on the oil-rich Niger Delta region which must be as chilling as it is instructive. It is a timely and clear call to conscience.
We must ask all presidential candidates to get a tape of this report for dispassionate analysis and contemplation for compact-building. We ask same of all our South-South Governments, as well as the home offices of all the multinationals operating in that region. It is time for a global response to the crises in the oil fields and the looming dangers they unquestionably promise the world. We must all study this tape!
Let the Nigerian Media rise up to this challenge...in this election year.
And for ultimate corroboration, we ask the BBC, ITV, ABC, CCTV and CBS to get on board this very global issue as well. It will help cage the politicians on all sides, and, more importantly, help galvanise public opinion and catalyze civil society & shareholders' actions worldwide.
We must pray that DW TV will help the German Chancellor to better appreciate her urgent and decisive intervention, through both the G8 and EU instrumentality, by conducting independent exclusives like CNN's. With Germany's commendable role in bringing the peaceful UN-assist 2006 elections to the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the DRC's subsisting crises over its rich natural resources, the media house has its job well cut out for it! Time is short.
Thank you, Jeff: That was some daring, I tell ya!
No comments:
Post a Comment