TELEVISION COVERAGE OF THE MILITARY INVASION OF THE SOUTH-EAST

I need help here. 

For over a decade, my television station of choice has been ChannelsTV. This is not unique to me otherwise they would not consistently win the Station Of The Year Award over and over again. I watch ChannelsTV especially when I need to put certain conflicting reports to rest. One cannot count on NTA for factual reportage.

Now some people have recently been accusing ALL major television networks, including ChannelsTV and of course TVC, of colluding with and being on the payroll of the Federal Government. This is a weighty accusation which I would want to dig into over time before I can take a definitive position.

However, apart from any editorial position and posturing on these happenings in Aba, Afara-Ukwu in Abia State and other parts of the South-East, has our favourite ChannelsTV been providing viewers with footage out of the South-East, hence allowing them draw their own conclusions? The surfeit of self produced videos by interested parties has been a source of serious concern. People weep over them. Others condemn them as untrue or true but sensational, and since they affect our sensibilities need to be suppressed. Meanwhile ChannelsTV and others REFUSE to give viewers authentic coverage.

If indeed the IPOBians are as bad and violent as reported, we need to see the pictures, together with records of the "justified" reactions of the military supposedly "just passing by or minding their own business." Without these, I sense a serious cover-up. Those who have been shouting themselves hoarse that a pogrom, (if genocide is too harsh a word for you), is in the offing, see in these developments the evidence they have been looking for.

ChannelsTV is fully on the ground in Awka, Enugu and the rest of the South-East. It provides blanket coverage for the activities of Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State. I have the sneaky feeling that the monsters at the Abuja military high command and 82 Division Enugu instructed them to stay away from their areas of operation. Otherwise all military exercises are newsworthy and are thus given comprehensive coverage. That was how I got to know the popular NTA military correspondent Muhammadu. In the heat of the Fulani campaign in Agatuland, ChannelsTV's Charles Erukaa kept us updated on the happenings there despite the obvious risk to his life. Why then are all the stories about the carnage emanating from Operation Python Dance in the South-East coming only from the "enemy" side?
This is sinister.