Police Summon Muvi TV Journalist over Barotse Coverage Zambia Police warn MUVI TV staffer Lloyd Kapusa against reporting Barotse related News, calling it ‘alarming’ to the Nation. Zambia Police have summoned Muvi Television Journalist Lloyd Kapusa and warned him against coverage of Barotse related stories on Zambia’s privately owned television. MUVI TV reports that their staffer was last week summoned by Zambia’s Western province police Commissioner, Lombe Kamukoshi in the company of her Deputy and Divisional Criminal Investigation Officer who charged that the journalist stops reporting Barotse related stories as they were ‘alarming’ to the nation. The MUVI TV staffer is about the only Zambian TV reporter that seems to have courageously ignored the Lusaka administration’s propaganda against Barotseland, but rather goes to Barotseland to gather independent news, while all the other Zambian media houses seem to have shunned covering Barotseland related news unless they were quoting directly from Zambian government sources, who have a specific set agenda on what is to be reported about Barotseland. “It is as though Zambia does not want her atrocities against Barotseland exposed to the rest of the world so that they (Zambian government) can lie about the actual state of affairs in Barotseland,” observed a visiting journalist who has sworn to do everything possible to report exactly what he has seen in his recent visit to the region. Although so many things go on in Barotseland that are news worthy, including the current ‘political’ cases running in Zambian magistrate courts of Kaoma and Mongu involving Barotseland nationals charged and detained for very lengthy periods without trial or bail on frivolous cases of possession of ‘seditious’ materials or publication of ‘false news likely to cause alarm to the public’, such stories rarely make headlines in Zambian media. Boris Muziba, Nayoto Mwenda, Sikwibele Wasilota, and Mubita Waluka have been in jail for over four months without trial or bail as their cases are constantly adjourned mostly because the magistrates in charge of the cases fail to attend appointed courted sessions, for one excuse or another, a situation that the local people deem deliberate to punish their loved ones even without trial. Meanwhile, the capital of Mungu and the rest of the Barotse country remain calm in spite of the heavy presence of armed Zambian security forces who roam the land daily, as though in a state of war. Our roving reporter noted a usually calm Wednesday 28th as business went on normally in Mungu town, with only a few closed shops cited. This Wednesday marked the dead line set for President Michael Sata of Zambia to sign the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) agreement challenge from the international lawyers representing the Barotse National Freedom Alliance (BNFA) to seek ways of resolving the impasse at international level. zambiareports/2014/05/29/police-summon-muvi-tv-journalist-barotse-coverage/
Posted on: Thu, 29 May 2014 07:03:14 +0000