Don’t Mislead Public, Kano Government Admonishes Journalists

Kano State authorities has cautioned practitioners to uphold media morals and run strictly wrong journalism standards to debar misleading the public.

The commissioner for Information and Home Affairs, Comrade Ibrahim Waiya, made telephone during a property briefing pursuing reports connected corruption allegations against immoderate officials. He said the allegations were earlier the tribunal and nether probe by the anti-corruption agencies.

He described the reports arsenic worrisome, falling beneath established journalism standards and portion of a coordinated run to discredit the existent administration.

“Worthy of enactment is the reckless and continuous manipulation of guiltless citizens by recycling the aforesaid communicative done antithetic patterns and faces.

“Moreover, since the communicative began trending particularly connected integer platforms, it has go evident to each discerning caput that determination is simply a cautiously orchestrated program by immoderate desperate, faceless, and unpatriotic elements to discredit the Abba Kabir Yusuf-led administration.

“The promoters of specified antagonistic stories and their paymasters person shamelessly continued to recycle the aforesaid communicative successful antithetic forms to deceive the nationalist into believing that the NNPP-led authorities harbours corrupt officials, thereby suggesting that the medication condones corruption.

The commissioner cited an illustration of an allegation involving the erstwhile accountant-general and existent commissioner for Rural and Community Development, Abdulkadir Abdulsalam, regarding an alleged instrumentality of N1.17 billion, explaining that the substance is not caller but a portion of an ongoing investigation.

He urged the media and journalists to uphold the principles of objectivity, fairness, accuracy, and balanced reportage, calling the recycling of stories “reprehensible” to enactment attacks connected a committed administration.

While reaffirming Governor Yusuf’s nationalist declaration of zero tolerance for corruption, helium said the authorities has institutionalised reforms guided by the amended Kano State Public Procurement Law, 2021, to guarantee transparency successful governance.