SECTOR 4 e. f. four members of the public not being journalists, who shall be persons of proven integrity and good repute of whom—(i) two shall be nominated by the Minister; and (ii) one shall be nominated by the Uganda Newspapers Editors and Proprietors Association; (iii) one shall be nominated by the journalists; and a distinguished practising lawyer nominated by the Uganda Law Society. “The question now is if this is actually there.” Panellists noted that the statutory body is not very active either. “For it to be active, people need to raise complaints. But people are not raising complaints to them because they don’t know about it.” “As a statutory body, it should have regulations, but these haven’t been effected either.” The media sector has not bought into either one of the councils; and the state itself has not used the statutory council to raise complaints. “The state should’ve been one of the entities exhausting the channel of the statutory media council. But the state itself doesn’t use its own body; and prefers to take them (the media), to court.” Most media houses have in-house editorial policies and standards, as well as their own complaints and disciplinary procedures. Scores: Individual scores: 1 Country does not meet indicator 2 Country meets only a few aspects of indicator 3 Country meets some aspects of indicator 4 Country meets most aspects of indicator 5 Country meets all aspects of the indicator Average score: 2.5 (2012 = 2.6; 2010 = 2.2; 2007 = 2.1) AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER UGANDA 2016 65