With only few hours to commemorate the World Press Freedom Day, media houses and journalists in Uganda may have little or nothing to celebrate about.
This is because the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has directed the suspension of producers, head of News and head of Programmes in seven radio and six television stations.
The UCC order is expected to take effect immediately pending investigations.
The affected television stations are Akaboozi, BBS, Bukedde, Kingdom, NBS, NTV, and Salt. The radio stations are Beat FM, Capital, CBS, Pearl, Sapientia, and Simba FM.
The directive was released on Wednesday May 1, on the UCC’s blog on a day workers worldwide celebrate the International Labour Day.
