Mohammed Haruna charges media with holding decision- makers accountable

ARESIDENT Electoral Commissioner ( REC) and former media chieftain, Mallam Mohammed Haruna, has called on the Nigerian media to extend its focus on accountability beyond politicians and hold responsible every person or group whose decisions and actions affect society.

He disclosed this during a Media Roundtable on “The Accountability Imperative: Why and How to Hold Politicians’ Feet to Fire”, organised by Frontfoot Media Initiative, Lagos, at Bon Hotel, Ikeja GRA, at the weekend.

Haruna said: “We must go beyond Constitutional enunciations for the media to hold government accountable to the public and hold every institution, whose decisions and actions impact people and society, to account for their decisions and actions.”

The event featured many distinguished personalities in media and politics, including a former two- term governor of Cross River State, Mr. Donald Duke; Dr Patrick Dele Cole; Mr. Lade Bonuola, a former editor and Managing Director of The Guardian; Mr. Dan Agbese, one of the founders of Newswatch magazine, and Mrs. Motunrayo Alaka, Executive Director of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism.