STATE OF THE MEDIA IN ZAMBA K2.5 million from the forfeited funds of the Tedworth Properties Inc. He earlier wrote to Chief Justice Mambilima and the judge-in-charge of commercial court Mwiinde Siavwapa asking that they immediately investigate judge Nkonde’s possible criminal behaviour. Meanwhile, Journalist Dr. Fred M’membe had also reported judge Nkonde to the Judicial Complaints Commission for alleged gross misconduct in The Post liquidation matter. Dr. M’membe had earlier written to the Chief Justice and the judge-in-charge of commercial court asking that judge Nkonde stops presiding over the matter between Post Newspapers Limited and Andrew Chiwenda and others. On a positive note, it was reported in the media that construction works of Television Stations had commenced in Kabwe, being the third town to be receiving such as part of the project to construct TV stations in all the provincial headquarters at a cost of $273. The other works had earlier commenced in Choma, provincial capital of Southern Province and Solwezi, which is the provincial capital of North Western province.5 Such an ambitious project, if and when realised and fully operational will be a breath of fresh air as it will inevitably add to the media in terms of both content, which is earmarked to be largely local, and the access to news and variety by the citizenship across the country. It is anticipated that, with the dawn of the digital age, more people will access media content more easily, and in quality that is of international standards. However, beyond of the hardware, it is the hope of the media fraternity that this does not turn out to be an extension of state media empire and propaganda network but seek to serve the people diligently. Within the same quarter, government made pronouncements to the effect that it was going to table four bills in parliament among them the cyber security bill to control social media abuse and protect people from being exploited. Transport and Communication Brian Mushimba said the cyber security bill will clearly stipulate the punishment for abusers of social media.6 The spirit and intention of this proposed bill could be good, but experience in this country has shown that 5 Zambia Daily Mail, 11th April 2017 6 Daily Nation Newspaper, 16th May 2017. 12 | P a g e