this is deplorable.......
MK
Closed Teso Radio Staff Sent On Leave
The Monitor (Kampala)
July 29, 2003
Posted to the web July 29, 2003
Patrick Elobu Angonu
Kampala
Workers of Kyoga Veritas FM radio in Soroti have no jobs any more.
The manager, Fr Athanasius Mubiru, has sent all workers at the closed radio station on leave.
The Catholic priest said that he could no longer afford to pay the workers of SOCADIDO, the development arm of Soroti Diocese, which also owns the radio station.
The organisation's monthly wage bill is Shs 40 million.
The radio was closed on June 22 for reportedly defying a government order not to air stories related to attacks by the LRA rebels.
Fr Mubiru now operates an office from a used goods container at St. Immaculate Conception Centre, 200 metres away from the Kyoga Veritas studios on the Soroti-Serere road.
"If there is a case against SOCADIDO, let the government bring it forward so we settle it in court to allow us gain access to our property and documents needed to process payment of our staff," Fr Mubiru said yesterday.
