STATE OF THE MEDIA REPORT QUARTER 4, 2020 I also want to assure the honorable Minister that my Ministers is making sure that we provide an environment for our media practitioners, who have been under threat by some of unruly citizens. To those who have been attacking radio stations and attacking those people on those radio stations, no one will be allowed to go scot free,” said Kapypngo. Meanwhile, Muchima complained that the national broadcaster served only as conduit for the PF, which explained why it remained a loss-making venture. “This is a Ministry that is supposed to be informative. However, I am very disappointed when we came from the colonial era to the independence time, the citizenry was informed of whatever was happening in the country. They used to go, even to the rural places with vehicles. Any programme, the government was very objective. But see how ZNBC is operating? It is purely for the PF! It does not cover anything that is negative. But you see, you cannot build if you don’t hear opposing views. What we want to see it to balance up the equation. There is a lot of misinformation going on. A lot of people are relying on social media, the media is simple, because of the ZNBC is biased, people tend to listen to wrong information passing by. Today, the government is broke! This is the time for the ministry of information to go down, even in villages, to explain to the people you can do that in many ways,” said Muchima. Alert-28th October (NDC Facebook Page) The National Democratic Congress (NDC) party Spokesperson Saboi Imboela has been arrested and charged with criminal defamation of the Republican President. The police have recorded a warn and caution on her. Right now we are on the way to madam Saboi Imboela's house as the police have requested to conduct a search. Issued by: *Kirby Kaoma Musonda* NDC Deputy Media Director MISA Zambia Follow-up MISA Zambia followed up the matter with NDC Deputy Media Director Kirby Kaoma Musonda. Mr. Musonda confirmed the matter to be true and at the time of writing this report said they were at Madam Imboela’s house where the police were conducting a search of which the reasons are not known. Alert-31st October (News Diggers) P a g e 46 | 56