The coordinator federal amnesty programme High Chief Dr. Dennis Otuaro has charged members of the Ijaw Publishers Forum to report facts to promote ethical journalism while telling the Ijaw and Niger Delta story.
Otuaro was represented by the national spokesman of the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) made this disclosure at the 2nd Ijaw media conference held in Warri, Delta State.
The administrator added'' I am happy that Ijaw journalists have boldly come out together to champion the Ijaw struggle in a very dynamic perspective".
Otuaro, quoting the words of former President of America Thomas Jefferson who said, '' if I am asked to choose between the people of America and the media, I will choose the media, and that the media can make and mar any government if they choose to do so.'' he said.
According to him, IPF has come to correct wrong reportage of Ijaw history and struggle by foreign media. The Ijaw story was misrepresented over the years, but IPF's emergence had corrected this error and the story is gradually changing for better.
Otuaro, however, challenged Ijaw media practitioners to be objective, truthful, accurate and fearless in their reportage to correct many years anomalies of the Ijaw struggle. He admonished members of IPF to see themselves as brothers and love one another in the discharge of their activities to achieve a common goal.
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