Use investigative reports to expose bad governance in Southeast – Stakeholders to Journalists

Journalists successful the South East person been challenged to usage a credible and investigative strategy of reporting to exposure the incorrect actions of authorities governments successful the portion and to ever engender bully governance.

These were contained successful the lectures delivered by impermanent speakers during a one-day grooming store organized for Journalists successful Umuahia, Abia State by Ikenga Media and Cultural Awareness Initiative connected improving the prime of Journalism successful South East for bully governance.

Delivering his lecture, 1 of the Speakers, Chinagorom Ugwu tasked Journalists successful Abia and South East astatine ample to brace up for the challenges of doing reports that genuinely correspond the nationalist interests, done investigations and fact-checking of accusation released by assorted authorities governments.

He lamented that a batch of developmental projects which authorities agencies claimed to person attracted oregon completed for the radical were either non-functional, abandoned oregon ne'er executed astatine all.

Ugwu truthful urged the Journalists to ever interact with radical successful municipality and agrarian communities to recognize their challenges successful areas of nationalist health, education, security, and roadworthy network.

“Relying connected property releases from the authorities and its agencies unsocial to bash your reports would not supply the radical with the close relationship of what is happening successful your State oregon the South East astatine large. Meet the radical adjacent successful the villages and cross-check what you are seeing oregon proceeding from them with what the authorities told you successful the property release”, said the Speaker.

Also speaking, a seasoned Journalist, Ralph Egbu who was represented by Chimdi Oluoha, regretted that definite factors specified arsenic cyber information laws, mediocre outgo of Journalists successful immoderate media houses, deficiency of nonrecreational regularisation and quackery successful the Journalism assemblage person affected the prime of quality reports, particularly successful the areas of investigation.

Explaining the intent of the training, Chido Onumah of Ikenga Media and Cultural Awareness Initiative, said it was prompted by “the evident deficiency of capable reportage, misinformation and outright disinformation connected issues affecting the South East zone.”