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Taraba tasks journalists on objectivity

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Taraba tasks journalists on objectivity
Dec 4th 2012, 00:00

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MEDIA practitioners have been advised to always crosscheck their facts before rushing to publish such information.

The advice was given by the Taraba State government, while reacting to recent online publication and a national daily report (not The Guardian) on the present health of Governor Danbaba Suntai who is undergoing medical treatment in Germany as a result of his plane crash in October.

The State Commissioner of Information, Culture and Tourism, Emmanuel Bello said yesterday,  in Jalingo, the state capital, that the government felt sad that in spite of "the fact that the governor is fast recovering" some media organisations could go as far as spreading "false rumour claiming that the governor is suffering from brain damage"

Wondering why Sahara Reporters has continued to feed the world with "negative" report about the governor, the government, he said had concluded plans to institute legal action against the media outfit

"It was this same Sahara Reporters that reported that the governor died immediately in the crash. But thank God they later on apologised. They have now come out to tell the world again that our governor is suffering from brain damage."

Stressing that the media outfit "lacked credibility" and out to create mischief", Bello suggested that the organisation "would have gone extra mile to send their reporters to Germany where the governor is receiving treatment for proper investigation"

The state government, he added: "Can no longer stand further provocations of this medium because it is the same medium that claimed the governor died in the crash"

According to him "a medium which lacked credibility that earlier reported the death of the governor, came out to apologise and now reporting that the governor is suffering from brain damage, whose brain is then damaged?"

Beckoning on media outfits to take cue from both The Guardian and ThisDay which according to him, cannot work on such information without verifying, Bello said: "There is already a plan to receive the governor back to the state"

The recent return of two of the governor's aides from German hospital and the incessant testimonies of stakeholders from the state who have been in constant touch with the governor, he believed "are good signs that the governor is fast recuperating"

The two discharged aides which are the Chief Security Officer {CSO} and the Chief Detail, as seen by The Guardian, are not suffering from any form of disability as was earlier reported by some media organisations during the crash.

The governor, Bello said "did not suffer any form of brain damage hence the need for Tarabans and Nigerians to disregard the Sahara report and that of other media organisations"

Other stakeholders who added voice to that of the commissioner called on the leadership of the Nigeria Union of Journalists to as a matter of urgency bring to book media organisations that  often derail from the ethic of the noble profession.

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