EDITORIAL : Bishops’ truth vs. Tchiroma’s truth

We have always appreciated Minister Issa Tchiroma’s spirit of duty consciousness. As Minister of Communication and government’s spokesman, he has always made himself available, and promptly too, in stating the position of government on such issues as the public deserves the right to know. A typical example is that since the outbreak of the Islamic extremist insurgency, the minister has always been giving press briefings on the situation on the ground. Since it has therefore not been possible for anyone to crosscheck the facts on what he alone decides to tell the public, the presumed truth remains there as he…