SIR: On Monday, July 8, 2024, a newspaper published an editorial titled “Akume’s riot act on official secrets,” in which it sought to justify the threat by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr. George Akume, that government officials who disclose information without authorisation would be jailed and railed against the criticism of that threat by Media Rights Agenda (MRA) as “misleading and mischievous.”   A point of convergence among various schools of thought on this issue would be, as journalists are wont to say, that facts are sacred and that the pursuit of truth is a core

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