Following a series of criminalities that have disrupted peace in the country, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Taoreed Lagbara, has charged the Media Practitioners in the country to refrain from propaganda reportage that is unpleasant to ending the menace of terrorism and banditry in the country.
The Chief of Army staff made the remarks during a media chat on Nigerian Army civil-military cooperation in Asaba, Delta State’s capital.
According to the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Taoreed Lagbara, the theme of the media parley, imperatives of military media partnership for the attainment of National security, was designed to strengthen the synergy between the military and the media.
The Chief of Army Staff, represented by the Goc 6 division, Asaba, Major General Jamaal Abdussalam, lamented the kind of reports that churned out after the killing of 17 military officers at Okuama community and advised the media always to balance their report in order not to send the wrong information that could threaten fragile peace in the country.
Speaking in the same vein, the Chief of Civil Military Affairs, Major General Nosakhare Ugbor, Major General Olusegun Adeleke Rtd, urged Media practitioners to always have the oneness of Nigerians at the heart in winning the fight against terrorism in their reportage.
The parley, by the army headquarters, with the media, is coming at a time when the nation is mourning 17 of its gallant soldiers who lost their lives in a gruesome manner in Okuama community, Delta State.
