From Ibrahim Kaulahi, Gusau
The Zamfara State political group Aminu Sani Media Office in collaboration with Media and Publicity Consult (MPC) has trained 200 Social Media Handlers (SMH) on constitutional-based political reports.
Speaking during the opening of the one day workshop at Command’s Guest Inn Gusau Zamfara State capital, a visiting lecturer of Mass Communication of ZACAS Gusau, Jamilu Iliyasu Birnin Magaji, said the aims of the workshop is to educate SMH on how best they would report political happenings in a constitutionally acceptable ways in the state.
Birnin Magaji further informed that, it is imperative for the SMH to be educated on the danger of making anyhow postings across platforms pertaining politics and even non political without giving regards to whether it would generate violence.
Also speaking, former Chairman of the NIPR Zamfara State wing, Alhaji Nasiru Biyabiki, warned that, SMH community should avoid postings that could generate hatred among the teeming readers or listeners.
Biyabiki, advised that, the SMH should utilize the lessons they acquired at the workshop which has clearly educated them on the danger of propelling misleading information, “You as SMH community, you serve a dual positions which included a Reporter and the same time an Editor of what you publish”.
A participant identified as Kabiru Usman, said he learnt a lot from the workshop, and he was made to understood the extreme need for posting what would organize and promote the peace in the society, adding that, “I would make the best use of social media to pay my contribution towards uplifting and uniting the state”.