By BARNABAS ZULU THABO Kawana yesterday stormed MAFKEN Radio in Mufulira and rudely disrupted a live programme in which local residents were voicing concerns about delayed payments by the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) for the maize supplied to Government last farming season. Mr. Kawana, the Ministry of Information and Media Permanent Secretary, who was not invited to the studio, broke in with officials from his ministry and the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) and trashed the concerns of the callers, claiming that in fact Government had already paid all the farmers. Footage shared by Mr. Kawana himself shows him questioning the presenter about the topic of discussion and claiming that Government had so far paid out K3 billion to farmers. “What were you lambasting?” Mr. Kawana asked the presenter, who calmly responded that the programme was addressing complaints from farmers across the Copperbelt regarding the FRA’s delayed payments. “So what has it done?” he pressed. The […]
Kawana storms MAFKEN Radio
