NEC lauds media on election coverage

NEC Acting Secretary for Information and Voter Education Giveness Aswile

The National Electoral Commission (NEC) on  Wednesday lauded media for their fair reportage in this year’s General Election.

 

NEC Acting Secretary for Information and Voter Education Giveness Aswile made the remarks when speaking to journalists in Dar es Salaam.

She said the media played their indomitable role in ensuring that the elections get the desired coverage.

 

“As NEC, we’re satisfied with the coverage of this year’s General Election,” the NEC official said, adding that the media were fully engaged in the electoral process from the beginning to the end.

 

“We really appreciate what you did to ensure the public is well informed on what was going on across the country. The commission recognises the media’s contribution which enabled the disseminating of information to the people in their respective areas as they were comfortably monitoring what was going on,” she said.

 

Applauding the media, notably the television stations including ITV, EATV, TBC, Star TV and Clouds TV which volunteered to televise live the electoral process, she said, the Commission’s director of legal services, Emmanuel Kawishe, has called upon media practitioners to keep the spirit of being at the front line to inform the public and make good use of their pens for the betterment of the country.

 

“The succession that NEC is proud off, and today’s situation have been contributed by your pens, we have been working together as a team and not as enemies, so the end of this election is the beginning of the 2020 general election, hoping  we’ll again collaborate,”  he said.

 

SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN