It is very clear to all that Tukur Mamu of Fuza Communication Services Ltd is a person of questionable integrity who takes pride in untruth, misrepresentation, concoction, irresponsibility and impersonating others. Since we discovered the true colours of Tukur Mamu and his company as serial liars that refer to black as white, we have been in the forefront in exposing his treachery, and particularly unraveling their criminal activities against the Government and people of FCT.

It is also a common knowledge that we have written some huge numbers of articles to expose the unprofessional activities of Tukur Mamu and his company. Tukur Mamu himself and his hired writers have, in many cases than one acknowledged the undisputable fact that our expositions of their criminal tendencies have really impaired their acceptability and reduced their readership to a minimal level. As a matter of fact, people have come to understand the true colours of Tukur Mamu and his junks. The man and his paper have lost readership in Nigeria and those who initially took them serious have deserted them, having discovered that they are not worth associating with. This explains why he recently gate-crashed his way to President Idriss Deby of Chad to falsely claim a make-belief ‘commendation’ for his notoriety in criminalizing journalism, since he and his paper have lost face in Nigeria. Tukur Mamu has so far been arrested four times in Nigeria for issues related to dubiousness and fabrications.

Whoever chooses to fight criminal like Tukur Mamu should be ready to be fought back through hook and crook. As part of his unrepentant way of doing things to have a pond of his own flesh, Tukur Mamu has introduced a new method of criminalising innocent and unsuspecting people, using his criminal paper as subterfuge. It is obvious, therefore, for the public to know how he goes about incriminating whoever he tagged as blocking his way of tarnishing the image of good people in the society by debunking and tackling him heads-on. In the past, what Tukur Mamu and his paper used to do was to formulate sms text messages and fake addresses and write a commendation letter to himself, which he publishes in his paper to portray as if his paper is being read by people. All these are attempts to cover up his criminalities.

Tukur Mamu has now graduated from forging letters of self commendation to total impersonation of writers. If one knows that he is not in the good record of Tukur Mamu and his criminal paper, one should never send any opinion article to him for publication because he will simply muddle it up, rewrite the article, put whatever adjectives that please him and publish it with one’s name in order to portray such person as if he is also fighting his target. This criminal tendency of Tukur Mamu and his gutter paper was recently extended to the Minister of the FCT, Senator Bala Mohammed, in his blackmail book entitled “FCT Administration: The rot within”

Tukur Mamu and his dubious publication are not happy about the giant development strides of the hardworking Senator Bala Mohammed in the FCT, who Tukur Mamu loves to hate for selfish and primordial reasons. He and his teams are busy forging documents from all departments to blackmail the FCT Minister and the entire Management Team of the FCT.

The Minister’s resolve not to give bribe to the Desert Herald Publisher emboldened his aides to play along with Alhaji Tukur who naively and myopically came out in his true colours as an undisguised blackmailer and extortionist. Overnight, the same man who claimed to have written a 284-page book detailing rot in the FCT started asking for allocation of land in Abuja and payment of N15 million as a condition for him not to publish the book.

It is no wonder that Tukur Mamu has in the last one year been arrested and detained in the security custody four times. It is not surprising too that the leader of Chad, Idriss Deby was recently manipulated to commend Tukur Mamu for the various crimes he has committed, using his moribund newspaper in Nigeria. The Chadian leader can now see the kind of journalism Tukur Mamu practises, which has made him to be ostracised in Nigeria. Even, the Protection Rights of Journalists in Africa that has been shielding him and lobbying for him fictitious awards has since realised the futility of its alliance with Tukur Mamu and his paper.

Indeed, it is highly condemnable and despicable of Tukur Mamu and his hypocritical newspaper team to blackmail the transformation agenda of the FCT Administration. This is not the first time such blatant gross misconduct has been exhibited by these ungodly elements in the media through the character assassination of the FCT Minister to satisfy their vaulting and inordinate ambition are cowardly and defeatist act and will never deter the laudable position we have always taken to propagate the truth about the great contribution of Bala Mohammed Administration, knowing full well that conscience as an open wound, it is only the truth that can heal it.

In view of the foregoing, we wish to state that the contents of the yet to be published “FCT Administration: The rot within” is adulterated, mischievous and jumbled up by Mamu and his allies to satisfy their chronic but diabolic interest. Therefore, we urge Nigerians and the good people of FCT to ignore the advertorial of the books “FCT Administration: the rot within” yet to be publish by Fuza Communication Services Limited.

•Adegbenga, National Coordinator, Integrity Youth Forum, writes from Abuja. He can be reached via intergrityyouthalliance@hotmail.com •Photo shows FCT Minister, Sen. Bala Mohammed.