The ruling Patriotic Front in Lusaka Province has warned the public media against unfavorable coverage of the party.
PF Lusaka Provincial Chairlady Maggie Mumba said in a statement that the party has observed a sad trend in the public media where government programmes and government leaders go largely ignored when they make important statements.
Ms Mumba said the party has observed a sad trend where the development programmes of the PF are not being adequately covered or adequately explained to the people of Zambia.
She said the development has left the party with only one conclusion that the media heads and their substantive boards are being controlled by an invisible hand that wants to show confusion and ignore development.
“We don’t care about what happens in the cheap private tabloids that have shown that they have cheap pocket agendas to prop up one or two individuals of their choice but we care a lot about what the public media with its wide circulation have to say about President Sata, his Ministers and development in this country,” Ms Mumba said.
Mrs Mumba said there are several things that have gone unanalyzed in the public media that President Sata has done in recent months and among them are the national budget that made serious pronouncements of job creation.
“This has gone unexplained in-depth including issues such as the dismissal of Winter Kabimba who divided the party. The public media has chosen to ignore this while cheap tabloids continue to attack President Sata’s programmes and his Ministers who being called tribal and corrupt every day at the expense of infrastructure developments,” she said.
“We have also seen statements made by acting President Edgar Lungu who is also the SG, Minister of Justice and Minister of Defense get ignored or relegated to the inside pages even when he is discussing the constitution or other messages of unification.”
Ms Mumba said other important personalities such as the Mayor of Lusaka Mr. Mulenga Sata are also being ignored in these public owned media institutions.
“This has left us with no choice but to warn the public media and its heads today that as the ruling party, we shall act decisively if this selective reporting continues. We would also like to warn the puppet masters of the public media that they shall get bruised because their pocket agendas are not for the benefit of President Sata and his leadership and the nation.
We are tired of seeing the name of the President and his chosen leaders get smeared in mud while the public media stands by and watch,” she warned.
She added, “If you insult people given responsibilities by President Sata, you are directly insulting President Sata and if you ignore people given responsibilities by President Sata, you are directly ignoring President Sata. We cannot competently discuss the tabloids because their pocket agenda is clear and it has crash landed but we can talk about the public media, which tax payer funded. Change now and adopt a message of unity and development. Do not emulate the tabloids whose message of hate and contempt is clear to see.”
Ms. Mumba said President Sata and the PF mean well but that he cannot deliver effectively if him and his Ministers are insulted and called tribal and corrupt in tabloids while the public media stands by and watch.
“The dawn of the jubilee must also be the dawn of a new unification message from the public media.”
Alright then, PF should open their own media house where all news items will be praise and worship songs of their leaders. We need independent media in a democracy like Zambia especially in the 21st Century and after 50 years of independence!
go to ZWD and listen to Bob Sichinga’s recording at his girlfriend’s house. Now that is the the real PF he describes
Unfortunately for PF, news publication is a business, and like any other business, it makes business sense to promote saleable products; in this case stories. Madam Mumba; don’t you wonder why the public media is broke? It is because of this kind of thinking and direction where public officers think they are the only news makers and only positive news about them should be published. Let the professionals in their fields lead the way as long as they are within ethical and legal boundaries. Do not dictate. The media houses, private and public, will decide what is news worth and if they are wrong, their newspapers will be returned unsold each day to be used as wrappers by marketeers and toilet papers by the rest of us.
Don’t fling sh!t then. Any statement with the word “stakeholders” or pronounced “defelopment” should be ignored. What a complete nonsense. ….development and what they should be doing is obscurred by greed and lack of capacity…not criticism.
Sorry this is out of topic, but what is this nonsense that has started in Zambia of secretly recording each other ? First it was Chikwanda and now Bob Sichinga.
Are these people talking as Government or as PF?
Dear Ms Mumba, it is not that the public media houses are ignoring PF leaders. It is just that PF leaders have very little to offer other than fighting students over simple matters clearly well taken care of by MoU.
BOB SICHINGA THINKS SATA MAY DIE
https://www.zambianwatchdog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/AUD-20141022-WA0000.mp3
LISTEN TO SICHINGA TELLING THE GIRLFRIEND THAT SATA MAY DIE SOON
https://www.zambianwatchdog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/AUD-20141022-WA0000.mp3
@Octopus. My computer suspect that the link you posted is a virus.
That is not Robert Sichinga’s voice.
Bob junior from USA should work for his father and clean-up this mess by Zambiawatchcats.
The woman in recording need arrested for real, she even involve recording her own child?
Thats not Sichinga`s voice. That guy is changing his voice projection. It is not coming out naturally.
Look at their faces..hyenas trying to leech off the crumbs from state resources by singing praises for those in government. Get day jobs.. Bloody !diots..
They should be arrested.
They are not painting a good coverage of either the president or the party.
ENOUGH
They abusing the freedom that his majesty president sata accorded them more than any other president.
Thanks
He is now the ‘Majesty’? Soon he will be the Pope and perhaps even more!
Explaining PF’s development agenda is not the Media’s role. That’s PF’s job, ala!! And why do they all get so vocal when their boss takes his special trips??
What freedom? PF has brought anarchy and check the panel, “cheese eating monkey converts” from one region.
Zambia daily mail, times of Zambia and PF Post are there to get the message. Dr Scott wants ZWD to “commit suicide”, then how can Govt projects be amplified if , even covering Sata open parliament was a taboo?
Last kicks of a dying horse!
Independence celebration or medical check up?
All PF, proverbs 18.
206
The Skey.
ACTUALLY YOU SHOULD BE ARRESTED MUSHOTA FOR BEING S T U P I D!
The ‘battle’ for sucession has just begun. Get ready for the fight !! Lungu the President !!
ka mushota kalishilu,Sata is not a king!!!
Belly Politician, ZAMBIA IS NO LONGER A ONE PARTY STATE, therefore we do have Press Freedom!!
Instead of concentrating on your deformed Belly, & being Corrupt, You should concentrate on doing your job, & developing Zambia, & I can assure You, the Press will then write positive stories about You & Your party.
This is a difficult one. For PF it’s a question of balance as to how far they want to go in controlling the media.
There should be a Broadcasting Complaints Body which should tackle the complaints raised in this article. PF should refrain from issuing threats to Media Houses.
What would be Prudent is to, lean on the Broadcasting commission to, punish or warn those that treat the gov’t with contempt.
Ultimately there are the courts, but again slander cases are not wise in that they give more opportunity to air the grievance in public.
Define the line between and duty of media to publish “constructive criticism”, revealing the truth, exposing thieving, informing the general public and answering logical questions Vs what everyone is thinking and has the right to know, say and think. Punish/warn….for what. Another corruptable quango or committee is a waste.
THE ABOVE STATEMENT MAY SOUND ASH BUT SHE’S RIGHT. FEW DAYS OR WEEKS BEFORE THE DISMISSAL OF WYNTER THE POST NEWSPAPER VOWED TO BE REPORTING (IN PICTURES) THE DEVELOPMENTAL PROJECTS THAT PF IS IMPLEMENTING IN EVERY PART OF THE COUNTRY AND THEY STARTED SHOWING US PICTURES IN WESTERN PROVINCE. AFTER THE DISMISSAL OF KABIMBA THAT WAS THE END OF SHOWING US THOSE PICTURES. MAYBE THE DEFINITION OF DEVELOPMENT IN THE EYES OF POST NEWSPAPER IS WHEN KABIMBA IS MINISTER OF LEGAL fimo fimo and PF SECRETARY GENERAL.
@Peter: Unfortunately Ms MUMBA is talking about public media. When did The Post become a public media. Cadre mentality should not deceive you. The issue at hand is let the media be professional.
Ahh Peter. I think take a rest. You missed the point. You do that alot actually.
Oh Peter PLEASE (yawn)
You must be boning her.
Don’t scream especially if you are going to say ‘ASH’ instead of ‘harsh.’
Those are public media houses and not pf propaganda institutions. When you do good things, naturally people will know about it
Mrs Mumba,
how you can expect anybody to analyse objectively last budget, when the same has been based on wishful thinking in lieu of hard facts.
In the last three years, poor got poorer, rich got richer, corruption has been legalized, rule of law is distant memory and fundamental freedoms have been abolished.
What is there positive to talk about?
Rule of deception and thuggery has become “positive” achievements to be cherished and hailed as the “development” of democracy?
PF are you crying foul after your so called bed-mate(post) has now turned against you? shame on you.Just work otherwise the media will report on serious issues and developments and not just mare statements from people like Kambwili and Jerry Chanda
PF are a bunch of lunatics who can kiss my shiny black bottom after applying some melted chocolate onto it. president sata is the devil people; he has been possessed by the demonic spirit since birth and wants to rule our country using his witch craft. such people can die in hell for all eternity; I am the one and only Evans Mfula at Evaduco reporting live from lusaka and hiding from kitwe boys.
PF you started this when you bought ‘The Boast’ Newspaper to side with you when you were in oposition, what are you saying now that you are in govt PF.
All the inhuman behaviour being exhibited by the oposition today were started by BaShi Chilufya. He used to insult the president, politicise the president’s sickness and made a secrete alliance ‘The Boast’, which never reported anything positive about Rupiah Banda and Mwanawasa.
You’ve just fell into a ditch dug by yourselves PF.
Does this woman know that we are in 2014 and not living in North Korea? She is the same woman who gathered a bunch of illiterate cadres to threaten HH when he used the idiomatic phrase ‘chimbwi no plan’ to describe the vanished Ukwa. Just shows how PF in Lusaka is such a Bemba to holder party!
Any news for Charles Katongo? Has the dog died? I cant wait.
*Dull woman, we don’t need vuvuzela, right or wrong! , good or bad! the public has a right to access information
All bembas this party awe mwe
The president to be is Lungu who is not Bemba. May be Sata is coming less tribal in his dying days.
Imagine this on the 24th of October, 2014,as we are celebrating our Jubilee only to hear this”…he is dead, he will be remembered as the only President who presided over the most confusing government in Zambia…”
That will be the greatest golden Jubilee gift to us Zambians.
Winter, ,Namakando, Godfrey, Edgar and Alexander will be celebrating naked in a mangoe tree.
If that were to happen you wouldn’t know about it until a day or more after the fact. It is a country, man, not a domestic outfit!
This woman is not serious.What does she want the press to report on Sata?That he has turned State House into a hospital ward?Th man has been in hiding literally all year and the *****s are complaining that he is not being covered.
OK Ms Mumba, so we should care a lot about what the public media have to say about President Sata and his Ministers? Right!
Well done Emperor SATA, you look fantastic in your new clothes!
Who does this woman think she is? What dull leadership is this? Where did Sata get these people from? In one breath she says public media is funded by taxpayers and in another she says they are supposed to praise politicians. What nonsense is that? Does she understand that both politicians and public media are accountable to taxpayers who are their funders? We do not have an opposition in Zambia to provide checks and balances. The media are our only watchdog (pun intended) highlighting any abuse and misuse of public resources by those in public office. The govt media houses are not accountable to pf but to the citizens of the country. Get that in your thick skull madam and stop hounding our public media!
Well, I know all those people in the picture. Shocking but true; they are all Bembas!!!! Probably it is a coincidence.
in sadc we dont have this kind of mentality,these ba nyamulenge wat the h…l
FREEDOM OF SPEECH! DEMOCRACY!! MAY THE MEDIA KEEP REPORTING THE TRUTH ABOUT PF.
All PF officials in that pic are Bemba. If it was another party ati tribalism. Chiwamila Galu kuluma mbuzi.
Ask Chibamba Kanyama who influenced Isaac Chipampe to move away public media from propaganda. I do not think Zambians are ready for this demand after realizing it is possible to make public media truly public serving public interest
These are the Same Dishonest P.F. Crooked Twits, that used an “Independent Media” (POST), under M.M.D, to CON their way to Power.
CHAWAMILA GALU, KULUMA MBUZI??
there is democracy mama; behave yourselves and you won t have bad news on you.
Ms Mumba dont think you can fool us. The whole purpose of your speech above is to suck up to Sata. That’s why you notice only one so called important person in your party: Mulenga. “If you insult People appointed by Sata then bla bla bla…. is politburo bullying tactics used by UNIP in the one party era. We are now a democracy where if we insult you its because you are being a stuck up ignoramus who doesn’t know what role a politicAl party plays in the preservation of democratic tenets like freedom of speech