Misinformation, Bane Of National Integration - Laoye-Tomori

The deputy governor of the State of Osun, Otunba  (Mrs) Titi Laoye-Tomori, had stated that misinformation and wrong perception from the mass media can lead to the disintegration of not only the community, but the nation as a whole.

Laoye-Tomori made this observation during a courtesy visit to her office in Osogbo by the executive members of the South-West Zone of the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON) last Thursday.

She reminded the media chiefs on the need for objectivity in their various reports and shun misinformation and misrepresentation of government policies and programmes.

Making inference to some misrepresentations of the various programmes and policies of the state government in some media on school re-classification exercise, the deputy governor carpeted the media report on islamization of the state by the Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola-led administration.


She advised the media houses and media executives to engage in issue based reportage instead of being sentimental and subjective in their reportage.

The deputy governor also enumerated some of the achievements of Aregbesola in the area of creation of 40.000 jobs for the youths, building of state-of-the-art schools, construction of schools, O’Meal school feeding programmes and many others.

She added that the state government has not been partisan in all its policies and programmes to the people of the state.

Otunba Tomori therefore counseled the media operators to project Nigeria’s cultural and moral values, rather than degenerated programmes that project the country in bad light.

In his speech earlier during the visit, the Chairman of BON in the South West Zone, Mr Ayinde Soaga, said the visit was to acquit the media chiefs with the developmental programmes and policies of the government and also to rally support for the annual programme of the association coming up in Calabar next month.

The State commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Sunday Akere lauded the policies of the state government and its non-partisan posture by not interfering in programmes and running of all the state-owned media houses.

He therefore urged the media chiefs to avail themselves the opportunity of their visit to the state to access the developmental projects of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola’s administration.
Some dignitaries at the visit were the Prince Soji Fadehan, Mr Sunday Akere, Honourable Kola Akanji among others.