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The Institute for Media and Society (IMS) has joined other stakeholders to condemn attack on media organisations, describing the development as a threat to freedom of expression. Executive Director of IMS, Dr Akin Akingbulu said: “While we support peaceful protests, which is a constitutionally-recognised right, we are opposed to the violation of people’s rights, including attacks on media organisations and their workers.

“We like to state a reminder that the media organisations are an important and indispensable institution in our country. Little wonder that the Constitution of The Federal Republic of Nigeria mandates it to monitor governance on behalf of the people.

“Attack on the media, in any form, is an attack on the performance of this function as it is a derogation on theHe stressed that the Federal Government should investigate that attacks and destruction of property and ensure that those who attack media houses and their workers are prosecuted. “The security agencies should fish out the perpetrators of the attacks, follow up with sanctions and provide appropriate remedies to the media houses and journalists, whose rights have been violated by security operatives during the #ENDSARS protests,” he added.

 

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Most media House in Nigeria don't report as it is. They tend to bend words. They keep forgetting that majority of Nigerians are literate. This is not the 70s.

This was absolutely unnecessary

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i wish i could feel the same. the promoter of the organisation played an active part in this umbrage we are in

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Journalists are supposed to be reporting events, but Nigerian journalists are taking active side and promoting sectarian violence, and sectional agenda of their own. And as such they are reaping what they sowed. You can’t sowed violence and reap peace.

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