President Rupiah Banda has advised journalists across the country to focus their reporting on developmental issues.
Mr. Banda says there are a lot of national issues that journalists can explain to the public instead of focusing on political issues and character assassination.
The President was prompted to give the advice after a journalist from the privately owned Muvi Television asked him to react to Patriotic Front-PF- leader Michael Sata.
President Banda said journalists should focus their reporting on issues that are relevant to citizens and the development of the country.
He says it is wrong for journalists to keep on bringing up irrelevant issues when there are national issues they can write about.
The journalist from the private television station later apologised for dragging the President to react to Mr. Sata.
[ ZNBC ]
what type of news is this
He is shivering so he can’t talk about sata. He knows its time to go. Which development does he want journalists to report about? Let him show us the projects he has done apart from those that the late president initiated.
thats the way to go Mr.President..sata is a lunatic ..don’t answer to every thing he says..
Sorry RB you ought to know that not all journalists are meant to report on developmental issue. Politics does unfortunately include character assassination, so just deal with it like any other leader in the world does.
Good advice Mr. President. Arguing with a lunatic like Mr. Sata is unproductive. Let him continue spewing his 90 day rubbish and let govt continue sensitizing the public on the many historic unprecedented development projects that have been embarked on.
Now you have started intimidating journalists, what a President, you can’t even afford to be diplomatic. Shame on you.
Much as it is true that Journalists should report on positive issue, we have a govt that has done more harm it its people than good. The so called developmental issues are in fact scandals. Look at zamtel, mobile hospitals, arms deal, pension funds for land, pension funds to ZNBS, single sourcing from state house, constitution making scum. Must journalist ignore all these and just shower undue and undeserved praises on rupiah?
LT plese give full details.It was a question on Sata’s reported popularity/mammoth rallies in Western Province and his assertion that RB’s govt had a homosexual minister that led the president to give the counsel.HERB futher implied the question of homosexuallity was inappropriate since there were children.Perhaps the counsel should also be extednded to the public media through Hon Shikapwasha so that the public media can stop broadcasting homosexuality news targeted at decampaigning Sata.What about Hon Dora Siliya and her straight language on homosexuality aimed at Sata and the Catholic Church(Perhaps she has more details on the minister)?Kids are all over Tv rooms and yes,they can litsen to Radio and read papers too.Chiwamina galu………
What nonsense of a statement!!!!!You can not separate politics from development.It takes political will to realise development.It takes political will to ensure that people have access to clean water,education,health,employment,to fight poverty,disease and corruption…When political will is lacking people are frastrated.President Michael Chilufya Sata is mostly popular because he talks about these issues affecting people.You can not separate politics from development Mr.President!!!
A Rubbish Banda is the one who needs counseling. Dont flip this on journalists
Mr.Capitalist,Senior Citizen and MMD Chief Bootlicker,please make sure you blog seriously in my support or else I will lose and your families will starved. Recruit more bloggers so that we win.
Things are not good on the ground.Mr.Sata has become more and more popular and he wants to arrest all of us when he wins.Have you seen how bad things are?
Tell that to Chanda Chimba Zambia Daily Mail Times of Zambia and ZNBC. They are full of character assassins.
LATEST!!!!! SATA’S IGNORANCE OR LIES EXPOSED: finance minister hon situmbeko musokotwane has exposed sata’s ignorance of national affairs. addressing pf rallies in western province over the weekend mr sata said that if his party comes to power it would construct the mongu-kalabo road and the sesheke-senanga road. mr musokotwane has questioned what kind of ignorance mr sata is exhibiting since these two roads are already under construction. what the minister does not seem to know is that sata wants to take credit for what rb is doing. i am sure the crowd must have gone away wondering why sata thought they are such id.iots. pf cadres, so you think that crowd will vote for mr sata after he insulted their intelligence like that?
Well spoken Mr. President. Thats good leadership right there. As the saying goes: – “Great minds talk about ideas, average minds talk about events, and small minds talk about people.” If anything, you are supposed to be encouraged to talk about the vision for Zambia should you be re-elected. That way, you will win hearts and minds and not just spectators.
It should read: President Banda intimidates journalists from Independent Media.
Evil leader.
thanks RB teach these lunatics that we shall win this years eletrions.continue developing this country,NAFUTI NAFUTI.
@15, compared to the evidence available in the post archives about the monster in mr sata, rb is a lovable, cuddly teddy bear.
Development starts with good and honest leadership, not vice versa. The reporters should be talking about corruption, unemployment and abuses of the ruling party.It is their job and RB is not their editor to be dictating what they should write. This is the kind of attitude which has made ZNBC so obnoxious to watch and the state papers unreadable. The people who are not trained to be reporters are dictating what to include and how to write, and what to show on TV. This is not acceptable
RB with all his corruption? You are kidding. Thank God we have no oil in Zambia. Zambia with Banda would be another Equatorial Guinea or Angola.