The Owa Obokun of Ijesaland, Oba Gabriel Adekunle Aromolaran II has advised journalists to be cautious in their reportage and uphold the ethics of the profession.
Oba Adekunle expressed his dissatisfaction and disappointment over an on-line report insinuating the monarch has passed on.
He said, ”I left Nigeria on October 7 for London to attend the wedding ceremony of late Oba Okunade’s son. The wedding took place in London on October 10. I arrived on October 22 to attend my son’s wedding which took place in Ibadan October 24.”
The paramount ruler of Ijeshaland admonished journalists to be more wary in disseminating unfounded rumour.
”You can imagine an online news platform publishing that their father is dead when there was no such thing. What type of junk journalism is that?”
”I want to cease this opportunity to admonish journalists all over the world to be more careful. Journalism is for decent people not hooligans. How can you publicise information that does not exist. What do you call that?”
”They know my number and there are millions of sons and daughters of Ijeshaland in the United States to contact and cross check. That is what I call junk journalism. That is what they practice.”
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