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Media Junction, Hon. Abu Abu and the Second Coming

By: Ibrahim Jalloh - (Jallomy)✍️ "It was frank, revealing, foundational and truly repentant". This was how a Civil Society advocate summed up our encounter with the Resident Minister of North East, Hon. Abu Abu on his second coming as Resident Minister. Media Junction is running on for close to five years now but since two years ago when Hon Abu Abu was appointed Resident Minister, it was only  yesterday Sunday, June 21 that he mustered courage to face the Junction. For many public figures, Media Junction is a disturbing and discomforting moment and one that literally drags public figures to a moment of moral guilt for acts of omission or Commission. The rancour and furor that characterised the suspension and reinstatement of Hon. Abu Abu were conditioned by a lot of externalities, prominent among which was the politics of "proving a point". In reality, it was less of the inappropriate statement made by the Honorable. One month suspension of a serving Minister of go...