Veritas reopens
Aug 31, 2003
Soroti-based Kioga Veritas FM radio station was back on air yesterday, 70 days of after it was closed over LRA rebel reports.
By Nathan Etengu in Soroti
Soroti-based Kioga Veritas FM radio station was back on air yesterday, 70 days of after it was closed over LRA rebel reports.
State minister for information Dr. Nsaba Buturo re-opened the radio station on behalf of President Yoweri Museveni.
Present were the Catholic bishop of Soroti diocese, Fr. Erasmus Wandera.
The diocesan development coordinator and manager for the radio station, the Rev. Fr. Athanathius Mubiru and the MP for Kumi county, Mr. Patrick Amuriat.
Nuns and the former workers of the Soroti Catholic Diocese Development Organisation (SOCADIDO) kissed each other and ululated when Buturo declared that the radio station was free to resume broadcasting.
More than 150 workers had earlier been sent on leave and seven development programmes stalled.
Nsaba Buturo said the radio station was closed in good faith. He said the closure effected on June 22 was not a punishment to the radio station and the Catholic Church as a religion.
“It is regrettable that some of our people tried to bring religion into this matter,†Nsaba Buturo said. Wandera said the station would take care this time.
Soroti-based Kioga Veritas FM radio station was back on air yesterday, 70 days of after it was closed over LRA rebel reports.
State minister for information Dr. Nsaba Buturo re-opened the radio station on behalf of President Yoweri Museveni.
Present were the Catholic bishop of Soroti diocese, Fr. Erasmus Wandera.
The diocesan development coordinator and manager for the radio station, the Rev. Fr. Athanathius Mubiru and the MP for Kumi county, Mr. Patrick Amuriat.
Nuns and the former workers of the Soroti Catholic Diocese Development Organisation (SOCADIDO) kissed each other and ululated when Buturo declared that the radio station was free to resume broadcasting.
More than 150 workers had earlier been sent on leave and seven development programmes stalled.
Nsaba Buturo said the radio station was closed in good faith. He said the closure effected on June 22 was not a punishment to the radio station and the Catholic Church as a religion.
“It is regrettable that some of our people tried to bring religion into this matter,†Nsaba Buturo said. Wandera said the station would take care this time.