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Nat’l Pilot MD lauds Kwara NUJ over anti-quackery c’ttee

...says decision apt, timely

By Mike Adeyemi
The Managing Director/Editor-In-Chief of National Pilot, Alhaji Billy Adedamola has said the responsibility of ridding journalism of quackery should be a collective effort.
He stated this during the official inauguration of Anti – Quackery committee of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Kwara State chapter, held at the NUJ secretariat in Ilorin, recently.
The inauguration formed part of the activities of this year’s press week of the Kwara NUJ.
According to him, “The decision of the Nigeria Union of Journalist, Kwara State leadership to put the profession on the right track is commendable.
“The issue of quackery in journalism is as old as the profession itself. The issue of unethical conduct of some journalists viz-a-viz impostors in journalism are banes affecting the practice of the profession.
“The decision of the NUJ leadership to put the profession on the right track is highly commendable. I want to urge us that we all have a role to play to get our country working and particularly to hold those in authority accountable, “Adedamola charged.
The MD noted that if journalism as the fourth estate of the realm could be sanitized, Nigeria as a nation would get back on tracks.
“If we can get journalism on proper footing, we will get Nigeria back on track. We all have a role to play and this is the best time to do it,” he stressed.
Earlier, while inaugurating the committee, the Chairman of Nigeria Union of Journalist, Kwara State chapter, Umar Abdulwahab, lamented the growing incidence of quackery in journalism and the need to salvage image of the noble profession.
Abdulwahab stated that the national leadership of the union had decided that it is high time it stopped activities of impersonators so that they do not bring disrepute to the image of NUJ.
He said that the constitution of the anti-quackery was consequent upon the directive from the NUJ National Secretariat, hence the need to checkmate activities of quacks in the media profession with a view to restoring sanity and discipline.
“The committee has been empowered in line with the constitution of the union to apprehend fake journalists and bring them to book.
“The committee, apart from waging war against unethical practices amongst media practitioners, has also been mandated to checkmate impersonation in the media profession,” he disclosed.
The seven-man committee headed by Stephen Oni, a one-time chairman of Kwara NUJ has representatives of the Police Force, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Department of State Service and front line media practitioners.

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