NTA broadcasters being treated for depression

Lagos – Broadcasters and other staff working for the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, are currently being treated for depression.

Most affected are broadcasters who have been reporting on the current mass protest against fuel price hike and bad governance in the nation.

Such broadcasters, some of whom have had to lie on live TV as interviews with pro-government ‘protesters’ are aired, are said to be suffering from acute shame, guilt, fear of God, embarrassment, low self esteem amongst other things.

The situation has become so bad that management of NTA has now enlisted the help of psychotherapists who have sessions with the broadcasters before and after they go on air to lie to the world that all is well in Nigeria and that the Occupy Nigeria movement is nothing but a few hundred thugs causing public nuisance.

A particular broadcaster has even notified her bosses at the station that her pastor has advised her that lying from a script prepared by another person is as much a sin as lying out of ones own prerogative. To this extent she has asked that she not be made to report on the current situation in Nigeria anymore or until she can report the truth.

Other broadcasters are simply afraid for their lives because, according to some of them, after telling lies about the revolution building up in Nigeria they have to travel through hundreads of thousands of protesters who have occupied the streets.

“What if they recognise us from NTA news?” asked a worried broadcaster.

- Joe Aibozaw