Basoga Outlines Ebimeeza Terms

Feb 06, 2003

OPERATORS of ebimeeza must be members of the National Institute of Journalists of Uganda (NIJU), state minister for information Basoga Nsadhu has said.

OPERATORS of ebimeeza must be members of the National Institute of Journalists of Uganda (NIJU), state minister for information Basoga Nsadhu has said.
Edris Kisambira reports that NIJU is the professional body of journalists that was set up by a Parliament Statute in 1996. For one to operate as a journalist, they must be members of NIJU.
Nsadhu said this yesterday as he received the 300-page ebimeeza petition asking him to reverse the decision that stopped the open air talk shows.
“Nobody has banned ebimeeza, and I want to put this straight. As government, we are only putting things right and I want you to leave here and go and operate your ekimeeza as long as you are doing it the right way because that is what the law says,” Nsadhu said.
As he received the petition which has been delayed for two weeks, Nsadhu immediately made it clear to the petitioners that the Government was not ready to allow them to operate again except within their broadcasting studios.
Derek Mutema, the chairman of the Ebimeeza Twekembe Pressure Group handed over the petition to Nsadhu in his office at Nakasero.
Over 6,000 Ugandans, including two Members of Parliament signed the document in support of ebimeeza. Ends

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