Coalition of Civil Society Organisations of Nigeria (CSO) has called on media practitioners and owners to be objective and sincere in their reportage, saying that “misinformation can harm the nation’s interest more.”
The organisation in a statement entitled “Don’t Mislead Us by its National President, Comrade Etuk Bassey Williams, said the recent report in some dailies where the management team of NARSDA was accused of inefficiency, especially in curbing insurgency, by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Science and Technology during their official visit of the committee to the agency was misleading.
He said the chairman of the committee who was the immediate past director general of the agency commended the efforts of the agency and urged government to fund it more for outstanding results.
Bassey said NARSDA “is not a security agency, as its satellite cannot even pick somebody running on the ground, but can help and have been helping in many other ways with the security agencies.”
He said: “Therefore, we use this opportunity to call on our media houses to be more objective and sincere in their reportage as one misinformation can lead to escalation of issues.”