Exposé impunity: Nyako charges Nigerian media

FROM DAVID MOLOMO, Yola
The Nigerian media have been charged to ensure that they do not promote the reign of impunity and lawlessness among the political class in the governance of the country, even as they should be bold to expose their evil deeds.
Adamawa State Governor, Vice Admiral Murtala Nyako, who played host to Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Adamawa State chapter, led by its Chairman, Salisu Abubakar, who were on Christmas homage yesterday, said Nigerian media needed to effectively and efficiently played its constituted role as spelt out in the constitution for the stability of the country.
The governor charged the media to be fearless to expose the atrocities being perpetrated by the political class, saying that would help to checkmate excesses in the polity.
According to him, for Nigeria to sustain a stable polity, the media must be alert to its responsibilities to the society, without which no meaningful progress could be achieved if impunity and lawlessness were allowed to reign in the society.
Nyako reiterated that the fight by some governors in the country was against the reign of impunity as perpetrated by a few that were not passionate about the ideals that Nigeria stood for as a nation in the comity of Nations that were aligned with the ideals of democracy or for the institution of democracy.
The Chairman of NUJ, Abubakar expressed appreciation to Nyako’s administration for provisions of state-of-the-art equipment in the media houses owned by the state government which in turn had helped to facilitate favourable working environment for journalists in the state.
Abubakar used the forum to admonish prominent citizens of the state to join hands with Nyako-led government to deliver democracy dividends to the people, as doing so would provide a synergy for socioeconomic development of the state.
Abubakar also appealed to the governor to intervene in the infrastructural development of Adamawa State press centre being managed by the NUJ to get a befitting centre for journalists in the state.