SLAJ Disciplinary Committee meets Northern Region Media Monitors

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson

Last Thursday, at the SLBC hall in Makeni, a cross section of members of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists-(SLAJ) Disciplinary Committee successfully engaged various District Media Monitors, assessed their monitoring work and mapped out plans for robust monitoring and reporting onwards.

Madam Claudia Anthony, the Discipline Committee Chairperson chaired the meeting, in her opening remark she briefed the Monitors that the meeting is aimed at letting both the disciplinary committee members and monitors across various districts in the Northern region to interface, share their monitoring and reporting experiences, evaluate success and challenges evident during the courses of monitoring and reporting on threats against Journalists and their work.

She adds that, the meeting is part of the DC's nationwide engagements which she disclosed will climate next week in Freetown.

And beseeched the Media Monitors to feel free and share their experiences, assured they will be amicably noted for onward presentation to the SLAJ Secretariat for actions and introduced Reverend Dr. Lucian Ganda and other members of the Disciplinary Committee.

A total of nine Media Monitors from Bombali, Tonkolili, Falaba, Karene, Koinadugu, Kambia and Port Loko including Ibrahim Jalloh the regional monitor and the Independent Media Commission-(IMC) Northern Region Director shared their experiences and suggested among other things for the provision of monitoring gadgets for more effective and efficient reporting.

The meeting was climaxed by a blanket plea from the Disciplinary Committee members present at the meeting who called on the Media Monitors to interface with media institutions by way of increasing their visibility.

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