In that article, I deliberately mentioned it; that AIT didnt pay a senior staff for ten months, that Nda-Isaiah didnt pay his reporters at Leadership Newspaper for four months. It is no news that close to a year now, Nduka of ThisDay Newspaper hasnt paid his reporters. I remember. Once, we-- the committee of friends-- were the ones buying diapers and milk for the newly born baby of a friend. Of course, he was working tosan toru as a photojournalist with one of the biggest media houses in Nigeria! And you know, nobody, out of those calling for my head has shown his/her outrage against these big names cheating on their reporters. Nobody. Direct ya anger at them and not me! Shame on you! Shame! They are busy, vomiting rubbish in desperate attempt to misinterpret my article. Nonsense. These boys, from AIT, from Leadership Newspaper, from Thisday hold a press conference with T.B Joshua who recently killed more than fifty people with his illegal building. The same case Ive been calling on the government to prosecute Joshua. Take 50k to fuel your car, Joshua tells them. Nothing seems like hes compelling them to report to his favor o (there are no established and or categorical statements/actions to prove this). The killer had already been exposed. The whole world is already aware of how Joshua recklessly killed people with that building. The journalist earning millions at PremiumTimes, however, runs out to the cyberspace to accuse his fellow colleagues to have received bribe so that they wont report the true story. Oya, hurry up, gaan sue T.B Joshua! And of course, submit that audio recording as your evidence in the court of law. The PremiumTimes whistle-blower, again, advises journalists to go and take up part-time jobs so they wont be enticed by such 50kays. Chai! Naija journalists, una don suffer. Go and tell Phil Hazlewood of AFP to get himself another part time job so he could sustain himself as a journalist. Or tell Jonathan Mann of CNN. Or Stephen Sackur of BBC. Thank you Jesus. I am not a journalist. Yes. I just seldom freelance as one, without expecting to be paid by anybaady! But then, a few people have the capacity to think many inches farther than those struggling with comprehension issues. One of them would be our beautiful Punch Newspaper columnist, Adunni Adelakun. Hear Adunni: ...Of all the discourses that has surrounded the Nicholas Ibekwe thing, this is the first time I am seeing anyone criticize the newspaper proprietor. I wonder why people think it is all abt the greedy journalist. The same society that will neither be galvanized nor scandalized by a newspaper proprietor who does not pay his staff for six months but organizes fashion and shows that pays Clinton hundreds of thousands of dollars is suddenly screaming at the journalist who takes 50k. There is nothing new about the debate and I have a feeling we will still be talking abt this same thing in some months to come. We will still be yapping about the symptoms of the problem while the real and complex issues remain obscured. While I am not in support of unethical practices, I would rather we have a wholistic debate instead of picking the aspects that suits our preconceived biases. I am done on this! Yelz. Off to get me a bottle of Orijin for the weekend. Mi o le wa ku.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 18:04:09 +0000
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