If you have been watching Baba TV for the last six months, you might have noticed some unprofessional conduct by presenter Jane Namukasa earlier this year when she hosted events promoter Bajjo Events on the entertainment show Ebitaala.
In that particular show and others, she openly showed a biased attitude against the National Unity Platform and Bobi Wine as a person, often throwing jibes at him. However, in a dramatic turn of events, Jane Namukasa has come out claiming Baba TV fired her for refusing to abuse Bobi Wine.
According to Jane Namukasa, who spoke to an online channel, abusing Bobi Wine during her show was among the tasks she was given at Baba TV. As the headline presenter, she couldn’t do much apart from following the script given by her seniors.
“The station was making me abuse Bobi Wine every day, they would bring fake stories and say take on this, take on that. As you know, the presenter has little input in the show; I reached a level where I felt it was too much. There’s a story they brought about homosexuality, and I refused to spin it, and I was suspended for a week; I served my suspension for two days and was called back to work, then they brought another story about Bobi Wine, and we were supposed to go to Jinja, that’s when I threw in the towel, avoiding continuing to fight Bobi Wine because all were lies, scripted to discredit Bobi Wine.”
Namukasa further reveals that Baba TV used to instruct her to abuse Bobi Wine, but they couldn’t even pay her salary when the month ended.
This now shades a cloud of unprofessionalism in many Ugandan Media houses ahead of tomorrow World Press Freedom where journalists revisit the challenges in the media space. This year’s theme is A Press for the Planet: Journalism in the Face of the Environmental Crisis