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Abdulrazak Namdas

Abdulrazak Namdas, Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Army

Ethical reportage critical to fighting insecurity – Lawmaker

The lawmaker says it is important that the right terms and terminologies are used when reporting acts of insecurity.

byAgency Report
July 22, 2021
3 min read

Abdulrazak Namdas, Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Army, says journalists play critical roles in the fight against insecurity through ethical reportage and pace setting, as agenda setters.

Mr Namdas made this known on Thursday in Abuja during a Capacity Building Workshop organised by the Konrad-Adenaeur Stiftung (KAS), a German Foundation and the Premium Times Centre for investigative journalism.

The two-day workshop, themed “Conflict Reporting for Journalists”, was aimed at training journalists on effective conflict reportage, guided by the ethics of journalism to avoid further escalation of situations.

According to Mr Namdas, it is important that the right terms and terminologies are used when reporting or describing any act of terror, attacks or conflict to better inform the people.

The lawmaker said: “if a bandit can graduate to bringing down a fighter jet and you still call him a bandit then there is a problem.

“It is the responsibility of the media to report with the correct names because there is no religion, tribalism or party lines in any form of conflict.

“When you get kidnapped, nobody knows if you are APC or PDP, so we need to be together. The politicians should not be setting the pace, the media is supposed to set the pace.

“As chairman house committee on Army, the challenges before us is very enormous in terms of security and all stakeholders must be on board because we cannot resolve insurgency, banditry with kids gloves.

“We felt the need for a capacity building with the media because today if you look at some of the terminologies and cliché on who is a bandit, terrorist, cattle rustler, armed robber, you begin to wonder who is giving such names,” Mr Namdas said.

According to the lawmaker, the Nigerian media has been very vibrant from time immemorial as they played a key role in ending the days of military dictatorship for the democracy being enjoyed today.

Vladmir Kreck, the country representative , KAS Nigeria, said conflict reporting remained one of the most difficult fields for journalists to cover with a lot of risks and when not reported correctly, could also escalate crises.

Mr Kreck said that building the capacity of journalists on how to report the crises situation in the country would also help in the successful fight against insurgents, bandits and other non-state actors.

“One of the objectives of KAS is to promote democratic governance and in Nigeria we have a very large programme on the security sector reforms.

“The house committee on Army is one of our most important partners in the support of the security sector reform.

“Conflict reporting is probably the most dangerous jobs for journalists, considering that journalist need to go to the fields to report, to probably risk their lives and threat to their lives.

“At the same time, it is also important to be aware that your sources and contact persons can also be at risk and reports can be written in a way that will escalate conflicts.

“Journalists need to be trained regularly on ethics and guides on effective conflict reporting,” Mr Kreck said.

READ ALSO: Insecurity: SERAP asks Buhari govt to withdraw gag order on reportage

Dapo Olorunyomi, the publisher, Premium Times, said there was no better time than now to build skills of journalists in this special area of conflict reporting as the country was bedeviled by crises across all regions.

Dapo Olorunyomi, Executive Director of the PTCIJ
Dapo Olorunyomi, Executive Director of the PTCIJ

Mr Olorunyomi said how well the journalist reported the situation, was what would bring professionalism to bare.

“If you look at the country today, it is faced with multiple layers of conflicts that if there is anything we need to do better, is in a way to manage and better report the situation and this really brings our professional skills to bare.

“I hope that colleagues will leave here and try to make further advocacy on the tools that we need even to do things better. In the sense, it is an obligation on government,” Mr Olorunyomi said.

Mr Olorunyomi also urged the Federal Government to consider the initiative Britain and Canada were pushing as regards global media coalition and freedom which aimed at dealing specifically with the rights and safety of journalists.

He noted that, sadly, only Ghana and Cameroon in the sub-region had been able to join this coalition.

(NAN)

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