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Let’s us not get it twisted, there will never be a cosy relationship between state actors and good journalists. And so whenever you see that state actors and journalists are harping on a buzzword, ‘we are partners .....

Let’s us not get it twisted, there will never be a cosy relationship between state actors and good journalists. And so whenever you see that state actors and journalists are harping on a buzzword, ‘we are partners in progress’, there must have been a compromise against the people. Journalism isn’t public relations. Journalism exists to scrutinise and question deviations, monitor governance and hold state and non-state actors to account, doubt and probe questionable reputation and integrity.

Have the Anambra schools ceased to amaze in results and even post-primary schools’ international competitions? Who has passed through Akwa Ibom state in the last 14 years? When you get to Akwa Ibom from their airport, you begin to see how a government should build even drainage system. From the airport, you begin to see what sustainable goals should be in their classic colours. Good road, good drainage and all through to the city centre and the boundary between the state and Cross River state.

The federal legislators with strange alacrity for approving foreign loans for even consumption will want journalists to hail their careless gestures. The federal legislators who would not like to approve electronic transmission of results of elections in Nigeria, the world’s most populous black nation would want journalists to put them on front pages for their perfidy against the people they represent.

 

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