Correspondent Chapel Of NUJ Chairman In Plateau State Vows To Accomplish All Campaign Promises To Members

Yakubu Busari

The Chairman of the Correspondent Chapel, Mr. Polycarp Auta has vowed to accomplish all his campaign promises to the members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, particularly of the correspondent through training, and retraining of its members on entrepreneurial skills acquisition and farming to be financially independent within the shortest period in office.

Auta made this disclosure during the correspondent chapel of the  NUJ Plateau State Council in conjunction with Sightsavers Nigeria International an organizes free eye check for its members and the general public held at the NUJ State Council.

He said,” This is just the beginning of good things coming to the members because we are in talks with other organizations in the area of entrepreneurial training to members on professional training also for them to learn to diversify their income generation especially to own shops, tailoring and farming either poultry or any animals husbandry, crop production.

“Government should also partner with the media practitioners to better their well-being and improve their condition of living,” he said.

According to Polycarp, he is calling on members of NUJ to be objective and always balance their reports to avoid conflicting reporting, nobody is saying that the truth should be hidden, but we want to balance reportage to wake the government up to their responsibility and to put them on track particularly whenever they’re going off the record.

He called on government agencies to cooperate with the media practitioners in the area of reporting, and information gathering, that is when the state would witness accuracy/ balance in communities towards reducing crime and criminality through the reportage.

Polycarp Auta disclosed that “you agree with me that the reason for organizing the eyesight screening exercise was to improve the member’s vision because the eye is one of the vital organs of man that is very important for doing everything you need to do as a human being.

He stated that as journalists and members of the pen profession, we need our vision and eye to be intact to perform the work credibly and effectively, that via why the members of the correspondent chapel of NUJ embark on the free eye check for members and the neighbouring community.

Auta stressed that, with the ideas on the ground we are going to meet the yearning and aspirations of our members which we promised them during the correspondent chapel electioneering campaign period, then after the election proper we approached the Sightsavers International to intervene, and help our members and they gladly up large to come.

He added that with the capacity of 60 members to render services to them on eye checks, drugs, and glasses, then referred those with serious complicated problems to hospitals.

Polycarp admonished the government to synergy promote media welfare and encourage balance and objective reportage.