27th July, 2015
PRESS RELEASE:
MURIC CONDOLES
AFRICAN EXAMINER, NUJ,
ON DEATH OF
FEMI KEHINDE
Femi Kehinde, Managing Editor of African Examiner, a
front-line online newspaper, died on Thursday 23rd July, 2015. He
was involved in a car accident which occurred along Lagos-Ibadan expressway.
The Muslim
Rights Concern (MURIC) commiserates with the management and staff of the
African Examiner, the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) and the Guild of
Editors.
Femi Kehinde’s death is a great loss particularly at a
time when a silent revolution is raging and seasoned journalists are needed to
contribute their wealth of experience to the re-engineering of the Nigerian
mindset. He died when Nigeria needs him most.
MURIC calls on
the new regime of President Muhammadu Buhari to give priority to a speedy
completion of the overhauling and expansion work on Lagos-Ibadan expressway. This road
which is notorious for traffic congestion due to its deteriorating state has
claimed the lives of hundreds of Nigerians.
We denounce the lackadaisical attitude of past regimes to
road maintenance and charge Buhari to expedite action on the road in order to
drastically reduce waste of lives.
We pray that
Almighty Allah spreads His comforting umbrella over the heads of members of the
deceased’s family, his colleagues in the African Examiner, the entire members
of the NUJ and the Guild of Editors.
Professor Ishaq Akintola,
Director,
Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC)
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