…Tasks Journalists On Peace, Dev

The Speaker, Rivers State House of Assembly (RVHA), Rt Hon Ikuinyi-Owaji Ibani has urged journalists in the state to harp on issues that would create an enabling environment for peace and developments.
Ibani gave the charge last Tuesday when members of the Assembly Press Corps paid him a courtesy visit at his office in Port Harcourt.
The Speaker blamed journalists for some crises rocking the society and expressed the need for journalists to properly manage the information they disseminate to the public to ensure peaceful society for development to strive.
He urged journalists in the state to always cross-check sources of their information to balance their stories, noting that many reports by some journalists in the state always lack facts and are one-sided.
Ibani, who thanked the press corps members for prompt report of the Assembly’s activities, promised that the leadership of the Assembly would continue to give the press corps the much needed support to  discharge their duties.
The Speaker also thanked the Assembly correspondents for identifying with him during the election tribunal period and at the Appeal Court where he emerged victorious .
He stated that victory was from God, whose mercy endures for ever on him, saying that but for God’s intervention, his opponent would have succeeded in claiming the mandate freely given to him by his constituents.
Ibani thanked lawmakers for their support, especially members of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the House.
On his part, the Chairman of the Assembly Press Corps, Alwell Ene said the Press Corps were in the office to congratulate him on his Appeal Court Victory.
Ene said, as journalists reporting the activities of the House, they were happy that the Appeal Court has continued the mandate given to him by the Andoni people.