A team of well-experienced senior journalists and media trainers from the Sierra Leone Association of Journalist (SLAJ) and the Independent Media Commission (IMC), earlier today engaged the Africa Young Voices (AYV) Media Empire journalists on safety, security and Code of Conduct
President of SLAJ, Ahmed Sahid Nasralla encouraged the journalists to prioritise issues of their safety and security and ensure that International Elections Observers capture such incidents in their reports.
“The media in Sierra Leone continues to play its crucial role in supporting national development and has re-positioning itself as a force to be reckoned with in governance landscape…” Nasralla said, while intimating how the media in Sierra Leone, and by extension journalists, enjoy relative freedom.
He said there is some encouraging degree of democracy, human rights, media pluralism and there is a seemingly general determination for progress and development.
Commissioner at the Independent Media Commission (IMC), Mustapha Sesay advised the newsmen and women on safety. He said: “Beware that there are national laws and those laws must be respected. Despite being a journalist, if authorities say don’t go somewhere or cross a demarcation because of security reasons, please obey and do not put resistance because you are a journalist…”
Director of News and Current Affairs at AYV, Amadu Lamrana Bah thanked the SLAJ and IMC for the visit. He encouraged the AYV reporters to put in practice what they have learnt from their senior colleagues whiles on duty in the field.
