Uganda Governance Monitor
Uganda Governance Monitor
At a meeting at Mutojo Playground in Kitumba Sub-County, Kabale Deputy RDC Michael Muramira Kyakashari ordered a local journalist to apologise publicly and retract a report alleging that a parish chief extorted money from Parish Development Model beneficiaries. According to ChimpReports, the Deputy RDC also barred the journalist from covering activities of his office and asked media regulators to discipline him; residents and people quoted in the report rejected the allegations, and the journalist accepted fault and pledged to withdraw the story.
Disputed: The journalist's report alleged a parish chief extorted UGX 100,000-200,000 from PDM beneficiaries; residents, people quoted and the RDC's office said the claims were false, and the journalist later admitted fault.