Baboons temper with ZNBC’s dish antennas in Itezhi-tezhi
A head of baboons has tempered with the Zambia National Broadcasting Cooperation (ZNBC) receiving dish in Itezhi-tezhi district disrupting television signal.
The incident happened barely two days after ZNBC restored its television signal to the district after more than one month without signal.
Itezhi-tezhi Acting District Commissioner (DC) Hampende Hichilema confirmed the incident to ZANIS in interview that the wild beats descended on the ZNBC installation on Saturday morning and disturbed the dish.
“The incident happened on Saturday when a group of baboons were playing around the dish and in the process they moved the dish from its position and some cable to the LNB got disturbed” he said.
A check at the ZNBC dish by ZANIS revealed that the dish was slightly moved off its position and some rods supporting the dish were bent.
The Acting DC has asked ZNBC to provide protection of the satellite dish to prevent further damage of the installation by the baboons.
Meanwhile Itezhi-tezhi residents have asked ZNBC to urgently restore the signal to Itezhi-tezhi.
One resident Mukubulo chilufya appealed to ZNBC to treat the loss of the signal to the district with urgency so that the district is not left in the dark in terms of information and current affairs.
Itezhi-tezhi residents have appealed to the ministry of information and broadcasting and the Zambia Communications and
information technology authority (ZICTA) to expedite the issuance of a license for Itezhi-tezhi radio station which has been test transmitting for more than five months.
The residents said that there was need for the authorities to urgently issue the license to the station so that people can be listening to
developmental programmes as opposed to the current scenario where the radio station is just playing music.
They said that the issuance of a radio license has been dragging for too long despite the radio board putting everything in place for the radio station to run smoothly.
Chilufya Mukubulo said as residents they need good programmes that are developmental in nature to start airing on the community radio station as opposed to music only.
He said the radio station will play a critical role in informing Itezhi-tezhi residents on current affairs especially those that have no
access to ZNBC radio.
And Lucas Chiwele one of the board members at the station said that test transmitting for more than four months is very costly for a radio station because the radio station cannot generate revenue from advertisements and other programming.
He said the station was having difficulties to operate smoothly due to lack of funds.
ZANIS
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Please take the baboons to plot one and shake everyone’s head there to wake up from the deep slumber
=))=))=))=))=)) I just love baboons!
How cute and intelligent of them 
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Zesco better consult RB how to get rid of those baboons he has done a good job at state house.Now there are no baboons no chimps no gollilas in plot one but just pickocks, so now he is a free man of plot one kulafilandafye ifi ma press conference coz no munyelo risk from apes anymore.:-?
ZNBC better consult RB how to get rid of those baboons he has done a good job at state house.Now there are no baboons no chimps no gollilas in plot one but just pickocks, so now he is a free man of plot one kulafilandafye ifi ma press conference coz no munyelo risk from apes anymore:-?
baboons can run znbc better than the id.iots doing the job now.
viva baboons at least they don’t sleep
Its RBs fault. If they were not fired from State House we wouldnt be having these problems8->
I second Ka’ doyo……..they are simply protesting what RB did to their own at plot one. Wait until they get to corn fields =))
Didn’t we read this story yesterday? I still stand by my theory … ba kolwe taba tamba ZNBC TV1 or TV2 …what more us humans? Mutwale Muvi TV ku Itezhi Itezhi guys.
I like the name of the Itezhi Itezhi DA, Hampende Hichilema!! Is he related to Hakainde?Good luck in the monkey business to both HHs
In all fareness, the monkeys have got all the right to disrapte this ZNBC MMD compaing tool.Viva Monkesy^:)^^:)^^:)^ i salute your caurage.Imagine if this masage can go up to RB and i think it will, remember he reacted after hiss :-@:-@:-@:-@ at statehouse and you SUNDILA on his, i wish it was on his (:|(:|(:| so that he feels it.Dont stop disrupting this Bad new of RB to people [-x[-x[-x
Please, it’s gorillas not gollilas, peacocks not pickocks.
# 11 this language came ne boat, what is important is the message.Chikulu naumfwa .naiwe
The baboons are just trying to compare technologies and figure why we’re so back-ward
LT, The heading should read ‘Baboons Tamper’ not temper.
LT can you please get your english ( or zamblish) right, a family of baboons is refered to as a “Troop of baboons!”
Kamwendo @ #15, no matter how much you try, you will never get LT to use the correct English. Why, because they “lift” or “cut and paste” everything from ZANIS, ZNBC, Daily Mail of Times of Zambia. It is only in the Zambian media and Zambian English that I have ever seen people use the word “Temper” instead of “Tamper”, for instance, as used in this story, both in the headline and in the lead. There is a huge difference between temper and tamper. Look it up in your dictionaries you lazy LT/ZANIS reporters!! Zambian journalism has gone to the dogs! Or the dogs have come to Zambian journalism. Or probably its the baboons.
Those monkies should be taken to state house coz they can’t TUNDILA anyone.
the baboons shud cum 2 ZNBC Luska so we cud stop listening to crap…
You tell me these Antennas are made of wood instead of steel? or they are 4 ft high instead of 90 ft high? Zambia please be serious with the way business is conducted, ZNBC should be ashamed to report this as news to the entire Nation. SHAME ZAMBIA, NEVER CHANGE NO IMPROVEMENT.