Association for Defending Victims of Terrorism – Kadaria Ahmed, Nigerian Journalist, wrote that the BBC’s reputation for stellar public service journalism is being damaged.
We read in her article that, the unfolding anarchy and violence in Nigeria are serious matters, and every attempt must be made to keep the public informed. A documentary that investigates and examines government failures, while centring on victims and their families would have done that. Giving boastful, bloodthirsty criminals a global platform serves only two purposes. It provides free publicity for terror and enables the BBC to push viewership figures on social media.
Journalists and now a global media organization of repute, the BBC, which should know better, are becoming tools for terrorists, even if unwittingly, by amplifying the faces, voices and stories of killers and marauders who are still operating with impunity across Nigeria.
By not upholding the same standards as they would uphold in the UK, in their work in Nigeria, the producers of BBC Africa Eye, in their latest documentary titled “The Bandits Warlords of Zamfara”, have provided a global platform to terrorists and can be accused of becoming an accomplice to terror in the name of reporting it.
