[RwandaLibre] Ugandan TV station faces ban after president shown 'sleeping'

 

Ugandan TV station faces ban after president shown 'sleeping'

Khaleej Times - 7 hours ago
(AFP) / 18 June 2014

Government spokesman Ofwono Opondo confirmed that NTV Uganda, part of
the Nation Media Group and east and central Africa's largest
independent media house, would be punished.

Uganda's government on Wednesday banned one of the country's main
television stations from covering presidential events after it aired
images which it said showed President Yoweri Museveni having a snooze
in parliament.

"The president has habits, he meditates and they know it, and still
they go out and say he was sleeping," government media centre manager
Dennis Katungi said.

Government spokesman Ofwono Opondo confirmed that NTV Uganda, part of
the Nation Media Group and east and central Africa's largest
independent media house, would be punished.

"We have suspended their coverage of the president as we reconsider
our relationship with them," he said, accusing NTV of a "lack of
professionalism and biased coverage".

"The suspension should not be permanent, it's temporary, to make them
think," Katungi added.

Museveni, aged 69, is one of Africa's longest-serving leaders, and has
led the impoverished east African nation since 1986.

NTV Uganda said they had not been informed of the suspension.

Last year the government shut the country's two main independent
newspapers for 10 days after they reported arguments among army
generals over whether the president's son should succeed him.

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