T4T read online some days ago, what he termed a very unbelievable allegation a radio On Air Personality (AOP) levelled against her media organisation. The female AOP (name withheld) said: “I was suspended from (name of media company withheld) because we went to Industry Night and sat down with people from (name of the other media outfit withheld) on the same table.”
How on earth would a radio station suspend its AOP or anybody for that matter simply because he or she sat on the same table at a media event with colleague(s) from other radio organisations? Something is not right? T4T recalled during his active days in the media house where colleagues from other newspapers, top competitors for that matter, would visit him in the newsroom and make their presence so loud even the editors would know.
Colleagues from other news organisations hung out together and pictures were published in magazines and nobody even batted an eye lid. Have things changed so badly that colleagues from other media houses cannot sit down together even at media events? There was this Urhobo top musician, Okpan Arhibo, of blessed memory, who said in one of his hit songs chiding fellow musicians quarrelling and bickering among themselves “even ordinary tomatoes and peppers sellers are in good terms talk less of musicians…”So, how on earth would owners of radio stations be bickering and fighting each other to the extent of going so low as to suspending staff members for a ‘crime’ of sitting close to each other at media events?
Anyway sha, T4T, as he is writing this finds the allegation by the OAP very unbelievable. There is something someone is not telling the public. And this is not to say the OAP is lying o, and or the radio station did not also do what she accused them of doing o…but the matta get comma sha.
