The Executive Governor of Rivers State, Barr. Nyesom Wike, has encouraged journalists to consider government authorities responsible, instead of give them grants based on “fellowship”, TheCable report. Wike expressed this on Friday when the public authority of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) paid him a civility visit at the administration house in Port Harcourt, the Rivers capital.
Wike, as per an announcement by Kelvin Ebiri, uncommon collaborator to the lead representative on media, said there was a requirement for writers to invest in more amounts of energy as the “solid voice and inner voice of the general public”.
“What I have seen of you is that you acclaim us and give us grant due to relationship or kinship. That is not the manner in which it ought to be. Challenge us — the individuals in power — and we will sit up to our obligations.
We will have no way out than to perform and serve the individuals as it ought to be,” he said.
“My help for you has to do with the way that you should come clean of what’s going on in Nigeria. “There was a period you were uncovering the ills of society. Notwithstanding you, certain things won’t be known. Expect your job, develop further again and stand up.”
He additionally remarked on the #EndSARS fights, expressing that the adolescent had the option to compose themselves without having pioneers. “On the off chance that when I chastised the tasks of SARS you added your voice, who recognizes what great that would have accomplished,” the lead representative said. “Presently see what has occurred.
There was EndSARS fight the nation over. No one knows how the young had the option to arrange themselves without a pioneer. “Up to this point, insight can’t know how they did it and who’s behind them. Without great insight, by what method would nigeria be able to try and annihilation Boko Haram?”
