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Govt Tasks Media On Implementation Of FOI Act
Media in Nigeria has been called upon to ensure that the Freedom of Information Act is put into active practice to avail Nigerians of unfettered access to information on matters of public interest.
The Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Sommunication, Ibim Semenitari, gave the charge during the opening ceremony of a two day workshop organised by the Nigeria Press Council and the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) and facilitated by the Rivers State Government to sensitise Journalists in the South-South and South East on the Freedom of Information Act (FOI). Speaking at the opening ceremony, the Director, Public Enlightenment at the Rivers State Ministry of Information and Communication in Mr Paulinus Nsirim, who represented the commissioner said, regulatory agencies in the media has a pivotal role to play to ensure that the FOI Act is put into active practice.
The commissioner tasked, the Nigerian Press Council, (NPC), the Nigeria Guild of Editors, (NGE), the Nigeria Union of Journalists, (NUJ) and Newspapers Proprietors in Nigeria to ensure strict regulation in the implementation of the FOI Act. The commissioner assured the commitment of the Rives State Government to respond to the imperatives of the FOI Act, which is already justified by the establishment of the State Public Procurement Bureau and other platforms for transparency and accountability in the governance of the state.
In his remark, the executive secretary of the Nigeria Press Council, Bayo Afeyemi, said the Nigeria Press Council has a legal responsibility to regulate the journalism profession to ensure that they operate on ethical conduct and get access to information without interruption. He said journalist had a constituted responsibility to secure the tenets of the FOI Act because of their primary duties of holding political leaders to account for governance.
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