Vice President, Inonge Wina says it is government’s vision to have a complete transformation of the broadcasting industry in the country.
Mrs Wina said this is meant to ensure that the country has a well-informed citizenry. Mrs. Wina said the smart Zambia project will make it possible for ordinary people especially those in rural areas not to be left behind but have access to information with available transmission facilities.
The Vice President said this when she flagged off a television satellite in Sioma district today.
She stated that government will ensure television services are available in every town and village hence building a smart Zambia so that no one is left behind.
Mrs Wina revealed that works are underway for the installation of 103 public viewing places in schools and clinics and 1,020 households are set to benefit from the satellite television in Western Province alone.
She noted that people who cannot afford to buy a television set and a decoder will have a chance to watch from the village television service points.
The Vice President further said Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC)1 and Parliament Television channels will always be viewed at no cost.
She explained that having access to information will allow a change in perception to issues such as health, education and agriculture among others.
Speaking at the same event, Minister of Information and Broadcasting Services, Dora Siliya revealed that government has plans to connect more areas to radio signals and Sioma is one of the districts that will benefit.
Ms Siliya stated that the project will commence as soon as the 2019 national budget is approved.
She said the Ministry of Transport and Communication has already embarked on erecting communication towers throughout the country.
Just give Zambians a t.v. and radio signals. The rest they will do by themselves.
It’s sounds like a 2021 manifesto though.
Don’t believe anything coming from pf
Ati GOVERNMENT WANT…
Disgusting English
Actually, this is ENGRISH
Putting up a ka satellite dish and decoder ati transofme the broadcasting ???
These PF are theives…they promised studios in all 14 provinces into the $250 million digital migration yet have built 3 or 4 studios and provided 5 OB vans ….that’s like some one paying for 14 houses and he gets 3 houses and 5 caravans instead…..
PUTTING UP IN WESTERN PROVINCE —- ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING WE ARE BUYING VOTES AGAIN !!!!!!!!!!!! THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN TRANSFORM THE INDUSTRY ESPECIALLY ZNBC IS FOR IT TO BE INDEPENDANT. FOR IT TO ALLOW OPPOSITON MEMBER INTERVIEWS, TO STOP LYING ON THE NEWS AND PRETENDING ALL IS WELL IN ZAMBIA WHEN IN FACT WE ARE DROWNING IN DEBT !!!!!!!!!!!
”….The Vice President said this when she flagged off a television satellite in Sioma district today…”
heheheheh
this is how PF and the humble thief lungu are duping the gullible…..”put up a TV satellite..”
do you mean a ka dish ??? or a tv transmitter , which I doubt is the case…
You see when you have an illiterate like this old woman as VP who sees putting up a dish as development , then folks you are in a very deep sewer….
They got $200+ million loan in exchange for majority shares with Chinese to brainwash our children…there is nothing they have done with that money apart from misappropriating it.
This old hen Bo Inonge is simply daydreaming…
They want to bring back socialism via the back door.
They want to be broadcasting their propaganda via state owned media to the illiterate in rural areas.
It’s either this government thinks all Zambians are dull, or they are so dull they actually think that.
Either way, this government has failed its people.
Exactly my brother exactly. Mind control from Dora Siliya z office assisted by DeadNBC
Exactly my brother exactly. Mind control from Dora Siliya z office
Ati village television service points. For broadcasting DeadNBC? Yayayayayaya! These are mind control points. Have you read George Orwell’s 1984. Govt wants Big Brother to watch you to control you. By Winston Smith