Kyari’s Burial: NUJ Wants Mustapha, Other PTF Members to Self-isolate

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PROFILE: Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of Nigeria






The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Council, has urged members of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 who were at the burial place of Mallam Abba Kyari, the late Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, to excuse themselves from the daily briefing.


In a statement issued on Monday in Abuja, Chairman of the council, Emmanuel Ogbeche, called on the members of the PTF which includes the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and National Coordinator of PTF, Mr. Boss Mustapha, to demonstrate dignified responsibility not to put journalists and others who attend the briefing in harm’s way by not attending the briefing.



“Following the protocol already established by the PTF and the presidency in asking all those who attended the funeral rites for the late Kyari to self-isolate, the NUJ urges in particular, members of the PTF who were at the Defence House and Gudu cemetery, to respectfully not attend the daily COVID-19 briefing until after the 14 days isolation,” the statement read.



Ogbeche said anything other than this would further cast doubt on the integrity of the PTF, and put the little gains already achieved in jeopardy.



The FCT NUJ boss advised journalists at the briefing to protest and possibly stage a walk out if any of the members that were at any of the rites shows up.

He charged journalists to be responsible for their safety by wearing appropriate PPEs and not become the news in the search for news.



According to him, the council was still calling on the media organisations to provide PPEs and hazard allowance to those covering the COVID-19 crisis, insisting that the union will declare industrial dispute with all organisations that fail in this regard after the COVID-19 lockdown.


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