By Frank Kauteka Tembo
Consumers
Association of Malawi has threatened to hold National wide demonstrations on 17
September this year due to gross misconduct of the Malawi Broadcasting
Corporation (MBC) which is biased towards the rulling People’s Party.
Consumer
Association of Malawi Regional Coordinator Isaac Gondwe confirmed the
development in an interview with Voice of
Kanyawazi during the weekend.
“It
is very true that we want to conduct demonstrations on 17th of
September, the reason being we would like all Malawians to realize that MBC is
being grossly abused by the state.
“MBC
belongs to the people of Malawi we think MBC must change the way it operates it
must actually truly be representing Malawians in the way it conducts itself in
terms of programming as well as beaming party functions there is too much of
ruling party kind of stories as opposed to all other people including the opposition parties.
“We
[CAMA] think being the radio which belongs to the people of Malawi ‘the tax
payer’ MBC must change the way it operates so we are asking all Malawians to go
on streets and demonstrate that MBC must change the way it conducts,” he said.
Gondwe
added that the development may affect the electoral process as the general
public have for along time been fed with biased information.
He
further said the biasness started way back especially during the one party era
and nothing has since been done to address the problem despite many people
speaking against the malpractice.
On
other hand, Minister of Information and Civic Education Moses Kunkuyu denied
commenting on the matter saying he has not received any communication.
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