HH prods the media to be issue-based

United Party for National Development (UPND) president Hakainde Hichilema has called on the media in Zambia to be issue-based in their reporting.

Mr. Hichilema says it is regrettable that the media has sometimes not highlighted
pertinent issues and has instead concentrated on personalities.   

He said this scenario has denied some quarters of society accurate information on
which sound decision could have been made about national development and governance.

Mr. Hichilema said journalists should conduct themselves professionally and should
not be cowed to conduct themselves in a biased manner.

He pointed out that as the nation commemorates 43 years of political independence,
many freedom fighters who should have been highlighted by the media for their
sacrifice have been relegated into oblivion.

Mr. Hichilema said celebrating independence is less meaningful when people are in
the dark about the significance of the day.

He was speaking in Lusaka today when he donated 50 x 25kgs of mealie-meal worth K2
million to Mazyopa residents whose houses were recently demolished by the Lusaka
City Council.

The opposition leader also visited a funeral house of one of the bereaved family in
Mazyopa..