Cibiyar da ke yaki da yiwa tattalin arzikin kasar ta’annati, Journalists Against Corruption (JAC), ta kira kafofin watsa labarai da su taimaka wajen yaki da yiwa tattalin arzikin kasar ta’annati ta hanyar kai gwamnati hisabi.
A cikin wata sanarwa da cibiyar ta fitar a Abuja ranar Lahadi, wacce Kehinde Osifisan, Manajan Shirye-shirye na JAC ya sanya a kan ta, ta ce kafofin watsa labarai suna da wajibi na kundin tsarin mulkin Najeriya na 1999 (kamar yadda aka gyara) na kai gwamnati hisabi ga al’umma.
Sanarwar ta ce, “Wajibin da aka tanada a kundin tsarin mulkin ba za a yi masa banza ba, ko kuma a sadaukar dashi don wasu riba na kudi. Wajibi ne mai tsarki wanda ya kamata a cika shi ba tare da tsoron ko son kai ba; ko kuma hanyar toshe ko hana.”
JAC ta yaba da matakan da shugaban hukumar EFCC, Ola Olukoyede, ya dauka wajen yin shari’a kan mutanen da a da suke cikin ‘untouchables’, kamar yadda kafofin watsa labarai suka ruwaito. Ta ce, “Dole ne kafofin watsa labarai su amfani da dukkan himmar su da kwarewar su wajen karbowa hukumar EFCC a aikinta na rage korafin kasar zuwa mabudin.
Ministan Ilimi da Sada zuruba ta Kasa, Mohammed Idris, a watan Yuni ya kwanaki, ya sake tabbatar da himmar gwamnatin shugaba Bola Tinubu na kiyaye muhallin amincin kafofin watsa labarai. Ya ce haka ne a wajen gabatar da littafi mai taken ‘Writing for Media and Monetising It’ na Senior Vice Chairman da Editor-in-Chief na Leadership Media Group, Azu Ishiekwene, a Abuja.
Idris ya ce, “A lokacin da muke bikin wannan alama, muhimmin abu ne mu sake tabbatar da himmar gwamnatin shugaba Bola Tinubu na kiyaye muhallin amincin kafofin watsa labarai da yin rubutun da ke da alhakin, da kundin tsarin mulki, da kishin kasa.”
