Media Awareness and Justice Initiative, a Non-Governmental Organization, has advised other Civil Society Organizations, CSOs to empower themselves with adequate data before embarking on advocacies or campaigns.
The Coordinator of the group, Onyekachi Okoro gave the advice during a workshop tagged, 'Inception Meeting and Data Training for Environmental Reporting and Advocacy'' held in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital over the weekend.
He urged the CSOs to equip themselves with requisite data on environmental issues such as quality of air and temperature to ascertain the level of pollution in the targeted areas and confront the IOCs with the data so that their advocacies would not be invalidated.
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