I’m sorry, Jang tells journalists

The Correspondents’ Chapel which championed the press boycott has also blamed the governor for making himself ‘inaccessible’ to them.   The governor’s apology was delivered to the journalists at the NUJ Press Centre in Jos by the state Commissioner for Information and Communication, Abraham Yiljap. The commissioner told the journalists: “we have missed the Correspondents’ […]

The Correspondents’ Chapel which championed the press boycott has also blamed the governor for making himself ‘inaccessible’ to them.

 

The governor’s apology was delivered to the journalists at the NUJ Press Centre in Jos by the state Commissioner for Information and Communication, Abraham Yiljap.

The commissioner told the journalists: “we have missed the Correspondents’ Chapel on its beats, we feel the pains of it and it’s regrettable. Our coming here is not to defend issues, but to get back our fellowship and relationship. The gap you experienced from us is regrettable, I personally take responsibility for that; I will not defend it, though there are explanations for that.

“On the behalf of government, we’re sorry for whatever might have gone wrong. I speak as a member of the cabinet, and I can assure you that we would work to improve on the relationship between government and the journalists, especially the Correspondents Chapel. We need you on board, we need your comments to spur us into good works. Without you I do not think that the Redemption Agenda would have been known for what it is today.”

The journalists were angry that the governor cared little about them as they   reported the Jos crisis, mentioning a recent attack on some of them in troubled Riyom Local Government Area of the state when the governor did not extend courtesy to them. They also accused the governor of not granting requests for press interview.