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Seme Customs Controller urges media to do investigative journalism

By NAN
09 February 2016   |   4:43 pm
The Customs Area Controller, Seme Command, Comptroller Victor Dimka, on Tuesday urged journalists to carry out investigative journalism when reporting a news story. Dimka made the plea in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Seme, near Badagry. He said that investigative journalism would help in giving a balanced, objective and fair…
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The Customs Area Controller, Seme Command, Comptroller Victor Dimka, on Tuesday urged journalists to carry out investigative journalism when reporting a news story.

Dimka made the plea in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Seme, near Badagry.

He said that investigative journalism would help in giving a balanced, objective and fair representation of both sides of a report to the general public.

“When reporting or writing a story, journalists should always carry out investigation as this would help in revealing the true side of the story.

“If that is carried out, it would give a fair representation of the publication and this in turn would help the public in giving a fair and right judgement.

“But if this is done otherwise, the public would be misled and would not get to know the true aspect of things.
“So, it is extremely important for investigative journalism to be `carried out in reporting stories,’’ the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) quotes Dimka as saying.

He said he was committed to transformation of the Seme border by exploiting all available opportunities to create an enabling environment.

“This command refuses to be intimidated by any form of organised protest against the implementation of Federal policies.

“Nothing would be done with impunity any longer. We are determined to get things right and have a complete moral rebirth in order to complement the efforts of the CGC (Comptroller-General of Customs).

“We are committed to collecting maximum revenue which is one of the core mandates of the service and that cannot be handled with any form of levity,” NAN quotes the controller as saying.

Dimka said that all officials of the command had been warned not to be involved in the clearance of imported vehicles.

“All officials of the command have been warned against interfering in the activities of all registered licensed agents.

“Any officer caught in the act would face the full wrath of the law because clearing of imported vehicles is not the duty of customs officers; so they should stay clear of such,’’ he said.

Dimka appealed to stakeholders, communities and the media to partner with the command in order to achieve its objectives of the command.

3 Comments

  • Author’s gravatar

    Journalism is said to be the activity of gathering accessing, creating, editing and presenting news to the public. In the context above it sheds more light on journalist involving themselves in Investigative journalism for the audience to know the truth and get more information on News story.

    CALEB UNIVERSITY IMOTA
    MASS COMMUNICATION 100LEVEL
    BRAND CALEB
    ALAO ARINOLA

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    Journalism is the act of accessing news before presenting to the public. I strongly feel journalism should more investigate so as to let the public know the more about hidden issues in the country.

    AlANI ABISOYE
    100LEVEL MASS COMMUNICATION
    CALEB UNIVERSITY
    BRAND CALEB

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    Investigative reporting or journalism is done to give and in depth knowledge or understanding of a news story or information to the public, without carrying out proper investigations, there will be no facts present in a story and there will be no proper understanding of it as well, and also investigative and interpretative journalism helps to gives authenticity to an information, makes it more balanced and well constructed to avoid conflicts in the society. journalists should therefore ensure that they gather their information from thorough investigations and verifications so that the don’t give the public wrong or imbalanced information at all times.
    ODETOLA TOLULOPE
    400 LEVEL MASS COMMUNICATION DEPARTMENT,
    CALEB UNIVERSITY IMOTA, LAGOS.