The minister of information Chushi Kasanda has refuted reports that she directed the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) to discontinue a story on the launch of 2021/22 Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP) for Southern Province.
She said the story is false, baseless, and calculated at bringing my name into ridicule.
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STATEMENT BY HON. CHUSHI KASANDA, MP, MINISTER OF INFORMATION AND MEDIA ON ALLEGED BLOCKING OF A STORY FROM BEING AIRED ON THE ZAMBIA NATIONAL BROADCASTING CORPORATION
I have noted with disappointment reports in some online media platforms that I instructed Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) to discontinue a story on the launch of 2021/22 Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP) for Southern Province.
The story is false, baseless, and calculated at bringing my name into ridicule.
The story also shows gross ignorance of the media which is highly liberalised and therefore futile for anyone to tell a media house not to publish a particular story given the multiplicity of media houses that cover an event.
There is no media house that has monopoly of information to either release it or withhold it in the digital age.
The public is urged to ignore the story and consider it as false.
Hon. Chushi Kasanda, MP
MINISTER OF INFORMATION AND MEDIA AND CHIEF GOVERNMENT SPOKESPERSON