Media practitioners have been charged to use their vocation to guarantee National development by abiding to the ethics of the profession and avoiding fake news.
This formed the opinion of speakers as the 2019 Anambra State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Journalists Media Summit ends in Awka.
Giving insight to the topic, “Separation of powers in Nigeria, fiction or reality” a guest lecturer, who is a former Head of Department of Political Science, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Professor Frank-Collins Okafor, who x-rayed the dynamics and intrigues in the separation of powers in Nigeria, noted that man is power drunk, and can abuse it at any given opportunity, hence the need to checkmate it through the separation of powers, regretting that Nigeria is passing through a serious and difficult democratic dispensation.
Professor Okafor explained that separation of powers in Nigeria is both fiction and reality, a reality that all is not well with Nigeria’s democracy.
The University Don further pointed out that though, separation of powers as enshrined in the constitution is good, none of the three arms will function effectively without collaborating with another, but regretted that instead of unity of purpose among the three arms of government in Nigeria, they have been in harmful interaction which is demands institutional rescue of Nigeria.
The Chairman on the occasion and a former Director General of Standards Organization of Nigeria, SON, Chief Ikem Odumodu made it clear that national development can hardly thrive without proper communication, which brings media practitioners to the centre stage and appealed to media players to be ethical, responsive and accountable by being above board.
One of the participants and a practicing journalist, Comrade Chinedu Ekweonu, who described the media summit as educative and worthwhile, praised Nigerian media practitioners for doing a great job amidst a harsh economic, religious and social environment.
Award presentations to some distinguished personalities climaxed the 2019 Media summit.
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