By
Emmanuel Udom
Juliana Francis, crime editor, The Telegraph
newspaper, has hit the nail on the head. She is appealing to members of Crime
Reporters Association of Nigeria, (CRAN), to rise above ethnicity and vote for accountability,
sincerity and probity.
The CRAN election, planned to hold on
Friday, May 6, this year, at Mike Okiro Media Center in Ikeja GRA, Lagos, is not
a political “war” between the Yorubas and Igbos, who are in the majority in the
association.
The ever
blunt and outspoken Juliana, my editor for life, is dead right. Members of the
association are brothers and sisters from one God.
Therefore,
we are united and inseparable and on Friday will show by our words, deeds and
conducts before, during and after the elections that we are determined to move
CRAN to the next positive level. God help us.
Visit: http://julianafrancis.blogspot.com.ng/2016/05/new-phase-of-crime-reporters.html?spref=fb
to read the piece, carefully crafted by fearless, outspoken and ever blunt
Juliana. The only lady that could tell this writer to shut up and I will keep
my mouth shut.
But, if you
are too busy to spare some minutes to read the piece, it is down-loaded here
for your reading pleasure. God bless Nigeria, God bless CRAN members.
On
Friday, members of the Crime Reporters Association of Nigeria (CRAN) will vote
in new executive members to lead the association.Members shouldn’t forget the essence of CRAN. It’s not about enthroning Igbo’s or Yoruba executives, it’s about bringing back the lost glory.
In fact, a leadership
that has a majority of a particular ethic group should be suspect.
He practiced a
leadership that saw everyone being carried along. Members of his executives
each had a role to play and knew their roles. Nobody was schemed out of
anything. Nobody was slighted. Nobody was insulted.
The next incoming
executives should forget about ethnicity and look for ways to take the
association back to the path where Kehinde and his predecessors left off.
Members should attack
bad eggs with the decisiveness it deserves. Why so many continue to get away
with corrupt practices in the association beats ones imagination.
CRAN leadership should
begin to look beyond admission of only electronic and print media into its
fold.
Online media is the
new face of journalism today. The association should open its mind and begin to
embrace this tough, but bitter truth.
It may be a bitter
pill today that may even cause acute indigestion for some people, but it’s a
pill all Nigerians, if not the whole world, will have to come to terms with. Furthermore,
the association needs vibrant, younger members.
They should be
encouraged and welcomed to join the fold.
The new leadership
should remember the unity of a bunch of broom. As a single stick, the broom
will break, as a bunch; they are strong, hard to destroy.
It must not be allowed
to be broken into factions. This was not the legacy Kehinde left.
The most beautiful
thing about CRAN is its Aims and Objectives. They are lofty and ought to strike
a chord within every crime reporter. Every member should take time to read them
again.
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