Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:43:10 +0000 Several times the Government has been forced to climb down and apologize for publishing false information. More recently the Ministry of Home Affairs had to retract and apologize for alleging that former Zamtel Managing Director Poulsen had been deported fromZambia. The statement was so embarrassingly false that the Minister who initially made it not only disowned it but actually asked the Permanent Secretary from who it may have originated to make a public apology. More recently the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Energy George Zulu was forced to apologize for suggesting that A Nigerian business house had received an underhand payment fromZambiafor an oil deal. These statements were wrong, but were made by people who have research facilities at their disposal. It is a very well known maxim that information is power. Information has tremendous capacity to achieve good and evil. Gatekeepers who control the flow of information […]
