Thu, 15 Dec 2016 11:29:22 +0000 By KELVIN SIABANA A NON-GOVERNMENTAL organisation (NGO), ALMS-OVC, has implored the media to report on development projects in Zambia rather than concentrating on politics. ALMS-OVC executive director John Daka said the media has sadly shifted its focus of informing the masses on development programmes to politics. Mr Daka said politics had taken a centre stage in the media circles because some personnel from different media houses had become the mouth pieces of certain politicians. Mr Daka told the Daily Nation in an interview that the media should denounce some political parties or leaders fond of using the media as tools of angrandisement which hinders progressive development. He said almost on a daily basis most of the media outlets – both private and public – carried political stories as their main issues. Mr Daka said the media played a pivotal role in the development of the country hence it was […]
