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Tar said this at a two-day workshop on Addressing Patterns of Violence, Injustice and Criminality in Nigeria, on Wednesday in Abuja.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the workshop was organised by International Alert Nigeria with the support of the Borno State Ministry of Information and Internal Security.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!The commissioner said that journalists and media organisations must refrain from projecting the state based on past events and begin to report the true position of its activities.“The media is still trapped in the old narrative of Borno being the home of insurgence, but all this has changed; our 27 local governments are fully controlled by the federal forces.
“There is freedom of movement, our transportation is booming, our agriculture is booming and everything is working.“This narrative needs to be carried by the media and that is what I mean by journalist not projecting the state in its true positions,” he said.
Tar said that Maiduguri, the state capital, was very safe for habitation and every other business activity including journalism.
He gave the assurance of the governor that journalists and media organisations now have the freedom to enter any organisation for information without fear of being blocked or censored.
Paul Nyulaku-Bemshima, the Country Director of International Alert Nigeria, said that the essence of the meeting was to brainstorm and identify the major issues that Nigeria was grappling with about security.
“This expert meeting is on addressing patterns of violence, injustice and criminalities in Nigeria and it is the second edition.“The overriding objective of this meeting is that we identify key resolutions of what is going on in different regions of Nigeria.
