Uganda Regulator Shuts Down 23 Radio Stations for 'Promoting Witchcraft’

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Mmalaka ya Mawasiliano nchini Uganda yaamuru kufungwa kwa vituo 23 vya redio kwa kile kilichosemwa kuwa ni kukosa viwango vya urushaji wa matangazo

Pamela Ankunda amsemaji wa Mamlaka hiyo(UCC) amesema kuwa uamuzi huo umechukuliwa kutokana na vituo hivyo kukaidi marufuku ya kuhamasisha imani za kishirikina

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Uganda's communications regulator, UCC, has ordered nearly two dozen radio stations to be taken off the air over what it calls "lack of minimum broadcasting standards."

The directive to shut down 23 stations has sent shockwaves in the broadcast industry.

Pamela Ankunda, a spokesperson for the UCC, told The EastAfrican that the decision was taken after the stations ignored incessant warnings against advertising and promoting witchcraft.

"The commission makes reference the public notice of 27th March 2014... where all broadcasters were warned against advertising and promoting witchcraft.

Regulator Shuts Down 23 Radio Stations for 'Promoting Witchcraft'

 

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Kampala, Mar 28 (Prensa Latina)Ugandan authorities have shut down 23 radio stations for ''promoting witchcraft'''' and trying to con people out of money.


The stations' licencses were suspended after they had guests on air who claimed they could heal diseases like HIV, Pamela Ankunda, the Uganda Communications Commission spokesperson, told dpa on Wednesday.

'The radios have been promoting witchcraft. People claimed on these radios to cure diseases like AIDS and cancer,'' she said.

'These people have been fraudulently getting money from the public,'' she added.

'Their operations and licences have been suspended until they are able to assure the commission through writing that they will abide by the minimum broadcasting standards,'' Ankunda said.

She said that Uganda has 292 radio stations, mostly privately-owned.

It is not uncommon for various religious leaders, self-proclaimed prophets and traditional healers in Africa to claim being able to cure HIV and other incurable diseases.


Source: Plenglish

 

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