Speaking at the inaugural session which brought government-owned media outfits across the region together in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria,the Chief of Staff in the Office of the President of ECOWAS Commission, Hon. Abdou Kolley, said the initiative was created in order to promote an accurate reporting of ECOWAS activities and tackling the growing issue of disinformation.
Kolley said the event, themed ‘Strategic Engagement with Public Media Actors in Our Member States to Strengthen Collaboration and Positive Coverage of ECOWAS Programmes and to Combat Disinformation in West Africa,’ is also timed to prepare ground for the forthcoming ECOWAS’s 50th-anniversary celebrations and to bring information to the people of the region on the contributions of the bloc to the socioeconomic wellbeing and humanitarian interventions in the last half century.
