It was too quick for journalists to unearth this was not exclusive motivation behind, nonetheless the main intention Finnish journalist union fronting its outfit Vikes was to support state-controlled union, subsequently weakening the National Journalists Union, recognised by the International Federation of Journalists.

Finnish support enables the ministry to forcefully encourage the formation of splinter union of journalist, controlled by State but also a stooge for the Finnish to implement their nefarious agenda.

The country’s journalists have been complaining about lack of safety to their life, poor working conditions and low remuneration and instead of concentrating on protection of journalists and improving their conditions of work, the union of Finland guided by Mr. Juha Rekola is busy creating its own fiefdom.

In a soul-searching mission Mr. Juha Rekola visited Mogadishu and started contracting mercenaries to do the devious business while micromanaging from the long distance of Finland.

Journalists are shocked to learn that Finnish journalist union which prides itself as democratic organisation set up by journalists to protect and further their rights and interests in international family of journalists is intense to impel yellow union in order to stop momentous attainments made by the internationally recognized trade union for journalists.

Finnish bankrolled and state-controlled yellow union had quickly lost the essence of anything relating to real trade union characteristics and had completely been transformed into a hand puppet.

Vikes and Finnish Journalist Union through funding acquired from Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland is bankrolling richly paid mercenaries in the Ministry and its associates to carry out filthy work.

To paralyze the efficiency of the National Journalist Union of Somalia, Vikes and Finnish journalist union are using despoiled government bureaucrats to weaken the existence of any effective, self-ruled and free trade union of media workers.

With the encouragement Finnish support and other misguided members of donor community Ministry of Information presented obnoxious media law in order to curtail media freedom and subjugate media rights.

Using Finland Ministry of Foreign Affairs funds, paid mercenaries are trying to corrupt or intimidate media representatives to be silent from obnoxious law.

To baffle media community Vikes together with yellow union organised a sham training meant for journalists but ended up to be workers of government media and street vendors collected to sit and take daily allowance.

The Finnish journalist union move is premeditated to further increase suffering of Somali journalists and to dilute the media’s strength and effectiveness in the face of enduring oppression after the fantasy of government-sponsored yellow union.

It is sad that the Finish Journalist Union had put up schemes to fight vibrant independent journalists movement in a very hostile environment, and is committed to use Finnish taxpayers money to support government machinery that want to kill the vibrancy and unity of independent media community.

Why should Finnish government fund its journalist union and Vikes to fight those they claim to be in same profession and wish for Somali journalists’ downfall and death?