NAICOM urges journalists to respect their professional ethics
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Ethics
Gombe, Oct. 29, 2016 (NAN ) Mr Mohammed Kari, Commissioner for Insurance, National Insurance Commission (NAICOM), has urged insurance correspondents to respect their professional ethics.
Kari gave this advice on Saturday at a retreat organised by the commission for Insurance Correspondents in Gombe
The theme of the retreat is: “The Role of Insurance in a Challenging Economy.”
Kari said that journalists have a role to play in a challenging economy like ours and while playing the role, they should ensure to do it professionally.
He called on the newly inaugurated officials of the Insurance Correspondent Association to advise their members on the need for proper code of conduct and professional ethics
According to him, reporting stories without proper investigation can be excessively embarrassing.
“I plead with you to make it as part of your agenda to appeal to your members to respect your professional ethics.
“They should also ensure to operate within the tenets of the profession at all times,” Kari said.
He said the time is challenging to the economy, saying every society also goes through challenges in life and Nigeria as an economy and insurance as industry are going through those times.
“And these challenges are so dynamic,” he said.
Kari said the industry recently witnessed a new challenge of the FRC code, which he said the effects on the industry would be looked into.
He said that the commission would soon present its intention to re-launch the Market Development Restructuring Initiative (MDRI).
He said briefing on what have been done so far and what would be done would be highlighted very soon.
The MDRI is an initiated that was conceived by the commission in 2008 and was aimed at enforcing compulsory insurance products and introduction of the Risk Based Supervision among others. (NAN)
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Edited by Felix Ajide
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