Delta Notes
Disdain for home media
The Oborevwori administration has acquired a unique but notorious disdain for journalists and media houses in the state.
To the governor and information managers, charity must begin abroad.
The unwritten rule is that until the Information Commissioner appears on national television, he is yet to start work.
For two years, the governor refused to have media chat with journalists, a culture all his predecessors did with religious faithfulness.
The Pond News would not be dragged into the puerile argument that the governor lacks the capacity to do that.
In the state of state address to the State House of Assembly, journalists were barred from covering the event.
As you read this news, editors of national newspapers and television houses were flown from Lagos and Abuja to tell the Delta story.
Yet The Pointer newspaper and Delta Broadcasting Service (Warri and Asaba) could not do the basic tasks of reporting government activities.
That is the sore stage of information management in Delta state.
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Ughelli NUJ campaign
Something bad and very unsavory is helping in Ughelli among journalists.
It is a season of campaign for new executive of NUJ Ughelli correspondents chapel.
The campaign is already on Facebook.
This is absolutely wrong. The candidates can do their campaigns on Ughelli correspondents loop.
The message is meant for only the union members.
Carrying the campaign to Facebook is wrong and very unethical.
Those doing the campaign on Facebook are smearing the image of all journalists.
Have you seen doctors, engineers and lawyers campaign on Facebook?
Let us be wise. Delta state council of NUJ should call the Ughelli reporters to order.
The proper thing should be done.
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Insecurity in Asaba
The insecurity in Asaba is assuming a life of its own. Apart from the kidnap of a former commissioner and the mysterious death of an aide to the governor, a lot of things are happening.
The citizens are passing through hell in the hands of criminals.
There are kidnapping and breaking into people homes.
Even these criminals use Keke to rob victims.
The irony of the matter is that during the day, there are police everywhere especially in Okpaman and Okotomi Layout harassing commuters.
There was a case of a police man searching a woman and touching her
sensitive parts of the body.
Yet with the fall of darkness, the police disappear into thin air.
There is also security operatives of Delta state that are notorious of extorting money from members of public.
The governor and the state police commissioner should do something to address these.
