Tuesday, 2 February 2021

When journalism ethics go bizarre in neo-liberal Uganda : NBS relayed wrong election results in favour of Museveni, says former employee Moses Walugembe

 NBS relayed wrong election results in favour of Museveni, says former employee Moses Walugembe

NBS relayed wrong election results in favour of Museveni, says former employee Moses Walugembe

https://thestreetjournal.ug/opinion/nbs-relayed-wrong-election-results-in-favour-of-museveni-says-former-employee-moses-walugembe/  

 
 

By Moses Walugembe

Bobi Wine didn’t attack NBSTV like many are trying to make it look like it.The protest letter to NBStv is based on facts which many of us having worked there know. They claimed to have a tally center which never existed and lied to the public that results they relayed were from their reporters on ground which was not the case. It was a lie (let them challenge me on that).

They therefore knew what they were doing just as they did it in 2016 elections, well planned and aided the state-Museveni, to announce fabricated results and I can be sued if I am lying. I have evidence to that.

Now the core codes of journalism standards and ethics include accuracy and factual reporting, truthfulness, impartiality and public accountability. They fell short of all these.

Fact is they knowingly connived with the state to declare results engineered in a hotel room which they knew were not from their own reporters who were in the field sending correct results from polling stations while the true results were trashed and instead relayed those given to them well fabricated. I know what I am talking about, I have been there. Kenneth this is a fact.

Let them challenge it. We need to protect this profession called JOURNALISM from those who misuse it. We are the fourth estate. 

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