Kano govt creates committee to regulate media

The Kano State Government has said that the recently established Media Information Policy Drafting Committee was not an effort toward gagging the media, neither a determination to halt the property from carrying retired their job.

Speaking portion inaugurating the 18-member committee astatine the SSG office, the Commissioner for Information, Ibrahim Waiya, said, “This Policy Committee has thing to bash with stopping the media from doing its jobs, but alternatively to cement the already existing narration betwixt the authorities and the journalists.”

He said, “For the archetypal clip successful 50 years, past is being made, and we are witnessing 1 of the top engagements that we are getting each the time, acceptable to person successful the state, that is having a argumentation that we are guiding the information, media engagement successful the state.”

Waiya noted that the essence of this is to beryllium guided by the nonrecreational morals successful government, arsenic contained successful journalism practice, and that the authorities authorities is not present lone to nonstop messages to the media, but alternatively to person a direction.

“We are taking up the abstraction wherever the boundaries of the authorities authorities are, and wherever the boundar...