Government has dissolved the Board for the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) and the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) Board, respectively.
Minister of Information and Media Chushi Kasanda announced that the dissolution is pursuant to the provisions of section 7 (2) of the IBA Act No. 17 2002 and section 412 of the ZNBC Act, Chapter 54 of the laws of Zambia, as read with Article 270 of the Constitution of the Republic of Zambia.
Mrs. Kasanda has since thanked the out-going board members for having served the country to the best of their abilities, and wished them well in their future endeavors.
This is according to a press statement issued to ZANIS in Lusaka today.
Boards made up of PF caders who’s only duty and intrest was earning allowances and promoting lungu ………
No need to quote chapters. It’s expected, just go ahead and appoint your own people.
It’s about time especially the so called “independent” IBA under mapoma was nothing but an appendage of PF.
In order to serve professionals from embarrassment it’s better to tie the tenure of these boards to that of the appointing authority. The manner in which terminations are done suggests wrong doing yet it isn’t mentioned. This might cause some people to turn down calls to national duty. Let these boards go with the departure of the person that appoints them. If the in-coming Minister wishes them to continue then he should make fresh appointments within 30 days of taking up office.
This woman is very attractive until she opens her mouth. This is hh appointment Hahaha
misogynist KZ, there he goes, pathetic !
Nabo aba ba Kasanda, you ve had three incidences were Dead n BC blacked out the presidents. 1. During his first press conference(important event, sound systems went black), at Mazoka’s memorial and recently in Namwala. Pls hire competence at our ZNBC people who want to work & serve the nation. Not cadres, especially if they are PF. Get rid of these street kids pls.
Fire ? pls, next dissolve Zambia Airways together with their Ethiopian immigrant pls. Wait for them to deliver the plane then confiscate the plane as surety for their Corrupt deals with PF and then cancel the deal – depot them.
@KZ, I thought it was other way round. Have you seen her walking, can’t much chi-Dora Siliya. But she speaks with wisdom in Lenje. I don’t understand well her poor English, but ok for ordinary Zambian.
@8 – don’t think the Ethiopians will be asking to stay – they have already raked in enough dollars from the “extraordinarily beneficial” deal we gave them on a silver platter!
Ala chawama sana natemwa ngeyapelwo munofu. That IBA was an incomprehensible nuisance. Pretending to govern broadcasting media while at the same time wielding the whip for government. A journalist cannot be appointed by politicians to police his comrades. One of them will suffer and it will be the powerless comrades. Please exterminate the IBA and leave journalists to police themselves
Josephine has finally been disposed after kissing Dora’s shoes.
It could have been Charles Kakoma dissolving those boards.
Hahahahaha kekekekeke hoohohobo
@Ayatolah don’t waste time repairing a faulty boat that is taking you in the wrong direction or to hell. Just do away with it and take a different direction.
The government shouldn’t appoint the boards of DeadNBC, IBA or any media. Leave that to parliament. The government are not journalists so they aren’t experts at free speech. They are elected to rule not to teach us what to say. They can’t be allowed to control all your life including speech.
As Deja Vu ( No. 2) has correctly said, the dissolution of the two boards was expected. The new dawn government should just go ahead and appoint its own people to run these boards. Despite the changes,ZNBC will be expected to continue serving the government of the day by promoting its policies and programmes. This explainsForget why each time there is a change of government, ZNBC programming also changes to suit the new environment. Forget about ZNBC giving more coverage to opposition political parties now that there is a new man at the helm. That won;t happen. The public media is not there to glorify opposition political parties ; that is the duty of the private media,
Telling the truth is not being a misogynist. My wlfe is highly educated and I respect her just like any other competent woman out there. What am saying is that this woman is not competent and I think there is more to her appointment. Can hh tell us what his relationship with her is .
Bad riddance. I mean that because IBA was a censorship board in disguise but government is removing the board to replace it with its own puppets. It should just be abolished forever
Telling the truth is not being a misogynist. My w.l.fe is highly educated and I respect her just like any other competent woman out there. What am saying is that this woman is not competent and I think there is more to her appointment. Can hh tell us what his reIationship with her is .
@14 kanamaso what you are suggesting reeks of Animal Farm. You fight against oppression but when you take over you appoint cohorts to drive the same oppression machinery. Just get rid of the machinery.
Lt joins censorship board.
Zambia’s Lusaka Times has decided to take over responsibilities of censorship from the IBA whose board has been dismissed. LT has been busy censoring its readership who are now threatening to transfer to rivals Watchdog