Enugu State LG Media Advisers Tasked On Constructive Reportage

The commissioner for information, Enugu State, Nnanyelugo Chidi Aroh, Thursday, challenged media advisers of the seventeen local government areas of the state to avoid sensational reporting of events, and always consider the suitability of the environment before publishing their stories.

Commissioner Aroh, who spoke in Enugu at a workshop organized by the Association of 17 Media Advisers to the 17 LGA Chairmen in Enugu State, charged the media advisers to use the social media in the interest of the reading masses by ensuring that they disseminate information that os not injurious to the public.

Represented by the director of public affairs in the state ministry of information, Mrs Amaka Eloike, the commissioner tasked the media aides ‘to always double check their facts, and consider the implications, whether positive or negative, and meditate on the suitability of such publication in the platform desired of it, before making such publication.”

Speaking at the event, the chief press secretary to the Enugu State governor, Dr Chuks Ugwuoke, commended the organizers of the programme, describing it as ‘the first of its kind’. According to him, “The job of a special adviser on media, whether to the president, governor or local government chairman, is the same.”

A participant, Sammie Echi Agbo, of Enugu South Local Government Area, said he learnt a lot from the programme. In his words, “I learnt a lot from our resource persons who took time out to educate us from their wealth of experience in the media. I’ll return to my duties fully equipped in the onerous task of information dissemination aimed at good governance at the local government level.”