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Rapid Intervention Journalists needed
I marched with my colleagues on Saturday 28 February 2015 to show solidarity with families of our fallen soldiers and other families affected by the war on Boko Haram. But that was besides my own disapproval of this off-topic focus by my colleagues to make us march when we ought to be writing and reporting from the war front, imbedded or independent, like Chadian soldiers in this war.

    True our country is at war. Our troops are both triumphing and dying. The public is anxious for a clear picture of what is happening on the war front. Our Rapid Intervention Brigade or Brigade d'Intervention Rapide (BIR) are spilling their blood for our safety and our territorial integrity. Our role as journalists is to do rapid intervention reporting of the war; we need rapid intervention news units, or better still, Rapid Intervention Journalists or Journalistes d'Intervention Rapide (JIR), to report the heroic story of our soldiers, first-hand, not Rapid Intervention Marchers or Marcheurs d'Intervention Rapide (MIR) like myself and my colleagues who rushed to march on February 28 instead of rushing to report.
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