 The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, has put together a two-day capacity training workshop for journalists on understanding the workings and functions of the Commission in fighting corruption in the country. The workshop is holding at the ICPC headquarters in Abuja, plus TV Emmanuel Ihejene has the report. The two-day capacity building workshop is the initiative of the management of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to boost the quality of reported by journalists covering the beat. While welcoming participants, Chairman of the Commission said there is need for a proper understanding of the laws that set up the ICPC and collaboration with the media in order to reduce fake news reporting. We have a duty to close runs about deciding how we will continue to communicate professionally bearing the risk of news reporting and fake news in mind. Because fake news and news reporting threaten all of us, it threatens the stability of the state and it threatens professional competencies and our livelihoods. I want to close by urging you to use this opportunity to establish a relationship with us, not just a relationship that demands of us that we tell you when we get a high-profile fish that we are investigating, but a relationship that helps us to discuss about how to deal with this culture corruption, what are the challenges that we face, what are the challenges that you as journalists who report these things are also attacked and are at risk globally that you face. According to the Commission, about 424 projects across the country have been trapped, with most either shortly executed, incomplete, abandoned or sited on private properties. The ICPC assured that many of the culprits were arrested, prosecuted and monies returned back to government coffers in many cases. How can we make sure that this brown envelope regime does not exist anymore? How do we make sure that casual casualization in the media industry sees forthwith? How do we make sure that investigative journalism is promoted? How do we make sure that the fallows, the nobility, the respects, you can give me as many adjectives as you associated with the journalism is respite. The Commission also took participants into core areas of its operations. As such, we focus on things that concern government and government officials, in their relationship with themselves or their relationship with members of the public, regards to the issue of corruption, issue of money laundering, issue of public contracts and so on and so forth. Several other papers were presented but not without calling on the media to collaborate in the fight for the benefit of the country. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.