Kohima, June 17 (MExN): The Naga Club (NC) has reiterated that the club will continue to stand for truth based on the facts of history without fear or favor, and “protect the legacy of the NC from being ravished, exploited or manipulated by any person including NSF officials for selfish gain, and shall continue to uphold the interest of the Nagas always and for all generations to come so as not to fail our people at this critical juncture.”
“The NC firmly believes that we shall know the truth and the truth shall set us free from all the lies and manufactured narratives that the tenant NSF has been airing in the wind,” it asserted.
Despite the appeal made by Angami Public Organization and Kohima Village Council requesting the NSF and Naga Club to ‘cease issuing press statements, say or do anything against each other which may only aggravate the situation,’ the two parties continue to issue rejoinder and counter rejoinders.
The Information & Publicity Cell, Naga Club (NC) in a rejoinder on Saturday alleged that “in a display of stubborn arrogance and disrespect to the two authorities, the tenant NSF has been indulging in activities at the site of the demolished NC building in addition to continuing press releases.”
The club reiterated that the conduct of NSF to refuse to vacate the NC building has been against the interest of the Naga people as a whole.
The NC alleged that “NSF officials had attempted to transfer the building and plot of NC into its own name but was found out and such an act of theft of our Naga heritage and our property had been prevented by the NC.”
It stated that “NC is a registered society having genuine Land Patta as well as Construction Permit with necessary committees for the construction of NC building for the Nagas without borders to provide free accommodation to the needy travelers coming from remote regions to promote brotherhood and unity.”
“While the NC has been striving to preserve the rich legacy of the Nagas and the NC, the NSF has been striving to obliterate the Naga heritage and the NC by distorting the facts of history by concocted stories and fabrication of facts on several occasions,” it claimed.
It also demanded NSF to specify the alleged “half-lies or half-truths so that the whole truth and the whole lies of NSF be exposed for all to see for themselves.”
