GROUP OFFERS FREE LEGAL SERVICES FOR JOURNALISTS

The statement made available to journalists also  urged media practitioners to intimate the association on possible legal assistance that could be rendered in accordance with the scheme.

“MRA is implementing a project funded by the Open Society for West Africa (OSIWA) in which MRA is poised to render free legal services to journalists attacked or assaulted in the course of carrying out their work or where they are denied access to information and records under the FOI Act’, the statement said.

Penpushing further reports that, the association in the statement said it would go to court to challenge the denial for free if the journalists want the organisation to represent them.

Meanwhile, it is on record that,over the years, several journalists across Nigeria have faced persecution and harassment in the course of holding the authorities accountable for their actions.