The Dynamic Patriotic Citizens Foundation (DPCF) has condemned the recent call to dismiss Army Logistics Officer Major General Erema Akerejola by a non-governmental organization known as the Center for Social Justice Equity and Transparency (CSJET).
The NGO, in a statement jointly signed by the group’s Director of Research, Documentation, and Evaluation, Gani Muhammed, and Director of Orientation and Mobilization, Sunday Alpheus Orji, on Wednesday, described the call by the group as baseless and heartless.
The foundation further described the call for the dismissal of the army officer as an attempt to distract a hardworking public servant.
“We are the Dynamic Patriotic Citizens Foundation, a non-governmental organization that aims to encourage hardworking and patriotic citizens working diligently in serving the nation Nigeria.
“We are always in the field as watchdogs, monitoring Nigerians in positions of authority, to bring out the best in them by encouraging them to focus on their jobs with seriousness and condemning anyone found to be unpatriotic in the service of the nation.
“We have monitored recent news making the rounds regarding Major General Erema Akerejola of the Nigerian Army Headquarters, Abuja, and are therefore compelled to issue this press release to condemn in strong terms the attempts by faceless individuals and groups masquerading as non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to blackmail, demean, and defame the character and integrity of a hardworking, patriotic military officer, including sponsoring negative press releases and unsubstantiated allegations against his person and his family.
“As an NGO that has been profiling and monitoring the Nigerian Army vis-à-vis the fight against insurgents in Nigeria, we have observed that his traducers have resorted to incessant harassment, sheer blackmail, and a deliberate attempt to tarnish his image and whip up sentiments against him through the usual traditional and social media trial and conviction without a real trial, with the ultimate aim of bringing him down when all attempts to hoodwink him into negotiating and giving them money have failed, and with the aim of easing him out of office with ignominy.
“These same people have gone ahead with their sinister motives by sponsoring damaging and defamatory reports against General Erema Akerejola through an online media outlet.
The same set of people suspected to be working in cahoots have gone ahead with their act of blackmail by publishing a defamatory news item using another media organization on 6th February 2024; through another news report of their co-opted felon called the Centre for Social Justice Equity and Transparency (CSJET), which is also a non-governmental organization.
“The recent mischief of the Center for Social Justice Equity and Transparency (CSJET) is not only reprehensible but condemnable when viewed from a reasonable person’s standpoint.
“We wish to call on the general public through your mediums and media organizations to disregard the antics of these mischief-makers seeking cheap popularity to bring the reputation of Major General Akerejola to disrepute and reduce his status and integrity in the estimation of the public.
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“Lastly, we wish to assure the general public that the last has not been heard about this matter, as we are sure that the General at the center of it all will seek legal redress to dissuade these traducers and those sailing in the same ship that not everyone can succumb to blackmail and ridicule through their failed attempts at painting him black with the aim of making the Nigerian Army sack him and therefore taking his job through the backdoor.
“This press release is needed in the circumstance to expose the antics of some corrupt and desperate Nigerians whose game is to use blackmail and ridicule to ease patriotic and hardworking citizens out of their jobs to obtain it through the back door,” the statement reads.
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