Jonglei State Public Radio Staff Trained
The Acting Director General in the Ministry of Information and Communication, Dual Bijiek Gony has announced that the Deutsche Welle team supporting Jonglei State radio has proposed the radio to be on air early in July. 28 April 2013 By Jacob Achiek Jok BOR, 27 April 2013 [Gurtong] – Dual said that Deutsche Welle team needs enough time to train the radio staff so that they can be capable to handle the radio assets if the mission goes on as planned. He said that Deutsche Welle has no confidence about the qualifications of employees to handle the radio equipments. Dual said that they have disagreed with the idea proposed saying that they have two gentlemen who are capable and have been working in field of journalism with some radio before. Acting Director said that the newly recruited 18 people including two directors, reported and technicians plus the TV group will take care of the radio assets. He said that main job for Deutsche Welle is to build the capacity at the radio station. “Some journalists from department of the radio were already in the ministry of information before the recruitment of the new staff,” said Dual Bijiek. The Deutsche Welle Company has conducted training for researchers two days ago. “Deutsche Welle have conducted a training last two days for the researchers who will be sent to the counties to collect the views of their community,” he said. He said that they selected students from Dr. John Garang Memorial University of Science and Technology of which each county will get one. The British Ambassador to South Sudan has urged the ministry to have the radio on air so that they can able to generate money after he visited the radio station this week. The state Deputy director has highlighted some of the challenges facing them to ambassador such as fuel for the generator and mobility. Dual said that the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) constructed the premises through the South Sudan Recovery Funds direct from Denmark. Bijiek said that a delegation from Denmark will visit Bor to hand over the radio to state government and monitor the official launching of the radio in the state. “The national ministry of Information, Telecommunication and Postal service has issued the frequency of the radio as 98.8 fm,” he said adding that the radio coverage will reach up to Juba. For the last three weeks the radio was tested and its frequency was working effectively. Posted in: Home, Governance, Media News -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
