Media Roundtable: Reporting Anti-Corruption Cases

As a part of rounding up activities in the Egunje.info project sponsored by OSIWA, Integrity hosted a round table with journalists. Because Integrity recognises that the media has a constitutional role in the fight against corruption, serves as a watchdog that can be used to hold both ordinary citizens and public officials involved in corruption accountable for their acts and inactions, decided to partner with them to provide them with a platform they can submit well researched and evidence based corruption stories without fear of retribution or their actions interpreted as a kind of political grand standing.
The essence is for the media to see itself as part of the citizenry that need to act together in the public interest to demand for accountability as well as prevent opportunities for divisive tactics by politicians who may tag them as “opposition” and “trouble makers” in order to make anti-corruption a central election issue. See attached pictures.