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PUL Forwards NBC Complaint Against Joy FM Journalist To National Media Council


  25 Juin      32        Media (1875),

   

MONROVIA, June 25 (LINA) – The Press Union of Liberia (PUL) has said that it has received and forwarded to the National Media Council a complaint from the National Bureau of Concessions (NBC) against Joy FM talk-show host for making false and conflicting allegations about the institution on radio.

This was disclosed to the Liberia News Agency (LINA) by PUL President Charles Coffey in an interview held at his office in Monrovia recently.

In a recent statement, the NBC alluded to what it termed as the “the erroneously false allegations levied against it by a talk-show host of Joy FM in a way and manner that shows heinous disregard for the truth and the journalist’s code of ethics.”

The NBC claimed that the local media talk-show host identified as Obed Gilbah, alleged that authorities of the NBC changed the entity’s payroll system in a manner that allows employees’ salaries to be paid through a check system where employees’ salaries are cut rather than going directly to their personal accounts.

The entity said that the journalist subsequently alleged that tons of ghost names have been place on the NBC payroll something which criminally defrauds the government of needed revenue to invest in public sector programs.

In a subsequent interview with journalists at the NBC headquarters in Sinkor, Monrovia the NBC Boss Gregory Coleman told reporters that it was unfortunate to note that the media which is expected to uphold the standard of society and hold public officials accountable will be used to undermine the agenda of government by dragging the name of public officials in the mud without authentication.

Coleman cited that it is unprofessional for a journalist to use the microphone which is very powerful to tarnish people’s reputation adding that “I have taken years to build this and someone just want to destroy it because they are not practicing their own ethical standard.”

Regarding the complaint to the PUL, Coffey told LINA that the Union is against unethical conducts on the part of any media institution and shall not condone any act of such, indicating that “before any action, we have to first investigate properly.”

In its strong-worded statement as it reacted to the allegation levied, the NBC stated that the information from the Joy FM talk show host was maliciously conjectured and baseless.

It said that the allegation shows the latitude and length to which some media practitioners are desperate in their proxy war to drag the NBC’s credibility and that of well-meaning employees and volunteers high-earned characters in the mud for little or nothing.

The entity cited that the hired talk-show host who has failed to abide by the Journalist’s Code of Ethics made zero effort to reach out to the requisite authorities to find out the truth against the so-called information given to him, but rather elected to broadcast mistruths and outrageous lies.

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