On the weekly common meeting of the Rainbow Rpg on Could 25, Marc Yombouno, member of the political bureau, criticized the withdrawal of approvals and frequencies from the Hadafo, Djoma and Fréquence media teams.
The gagging of the press enrages these accountable for the Rainbow RPG. “The press is the sentinel of democracy, the voice of the unvoiced. Journalists do not invent, they inform the reality. If a supervisor errors the press for one thing else, then he’s not doing the nation any good,” underlined Marc Yombouno, Saturday Could 25, on the Rpg Rainbow headquarters in Gbessia.
The jamming of the waves, the disconnection of televisions from the Canal+ and StarTimes packages, the withdrawal of facilities and frequencies “take us again to the miseries of Antiquity. Why destroy what we discovered there? It’s those that say they’re younger and that the previous have ruled badly who take us again to Antiquity.”
The previous Minister of Commerce of Alpha Grimpeur declares that the rainbow RPG stays in solidarity with the media. “We’re not joyful, as a result of press freedom is an achievement protected by President Alpha Condé, which is being trampled on. For eleven years, the media stated every part about Alpha Condé’s governance, even the President’s non-public life, however Alpha Condé by no means withdrew the approval or frequency of a media outlet. As a substitute, he supported the press by rising the subsidy.”
Marc Yombouno invitations everybody to not really feel wronged by the important aspect of the press, as a result of these are corporations that make use of lots of of Guineans. And do not forget that many younger folks labored in these now closed press corporations. “What is going to change into of them? Can we keep static? (…) » This “slicing” of jobs comes on the eve of nationwide exams, initially of the wet season. “Let’s not simply see journalists, let’s take into consideration their households behind them. How are they going to pay the lease, their youngsters’s faculty charges? The rainbow RPG will discover methods to help the media. The doorways of the occasion are extensive open,” assures Marc Yombouno. And to ask journalists to be taught classes, to unite.
To see if the Transition authorities will assessment their copy.
Yaya Doumbouya
2024-05-25 19:14:06