…Seeks better working condition for journalists
National President of Nigerian Union of Journalists, (NUJ) Comrade Chris Isiguzo has expressed concern over the alarming rate of fake news by social media platforms and fifth columnists in the country.which according to him, has given the media profession a bad name.
Isiguzo was reacting at the weekend, on the heels of reported by some online media the arrests of two Channel TV journalists, by the Department of State Security DSS, who anchored Gov Ortom’s interview in the sunrise morning show.
Comrade Isiguzo who met with the United Igbo Journalists Forum in Abuja explained that the online publications that the Chanells television Journalists were arrested was fake adding that they were only invited by the National Broadcasting Commission for questioning.
He said after the chat with NBC management, they were asked to go immediately at the intervention of the national secretariat led by him.
He urged the social media and some fifth columnist who have decided to destroy the media profession through fake news to desist from such act as the union is determined to raise the arm of the law against piovioters of fake news.
The president who advocated for better working conditions for journalists in the country also disclosed that media organisationsions who are owing journalists arrears of salaries without making genuine efforts to clear them will be picketed by the union as a last option.
He further stated that the union has secured payment’s of its members who were owed several months of salary arrears in some media houses.
