What is so different from this statement than what Iddi Amin was stating? apart
from a simple fact that Amin was several years early?
Just curious !!!
Em
Toronto
The Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy"
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"avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"
----- Original Message -----
From: Matek Opoko
To: [email protected] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 10:32 AM
Subject: [Ugnet] Kenya could halt BBC broadcasts
Kenya could halt BBC broadcasts
The BBC has rebroadcasting deals and 24-hour relays in Kenya
Foreign radio stations in Kenya may be prevented from broadcasting if
reciprocal licences are not granted, a government minister has warned.
The UK, US and China had all been put on notice, Assistant Information
Minister Koigi wa Wamwere said.
"If we are allowing BBC to broadcast in Kenya, KBC (Kenya Broadcasting
Corporation) should also be in London," Mr Wamwere said at a state function.
He said a refusal to reciprocate would be treating Kenyans "like
idiots".
The BBC has some 12 million listeners in Kenya - with about half that
number listening in Swahili.
KBC should also be allowed to broadcast in Washington and Beijing, he
added, as Voice of America and Radio China broadcast in Kenya.
The BBC has rebroadcasting deals with five radio stations in the
country and 24-hour relays in Kisumu, Mombasa and the capital, Nairobi.
''If BBC does not reciprocate our giving them a licence here by giving
us a chance in London, then we are not going to have mercy because that is
treating us like idiots and we shall not allow it," Kenya's People newspaper
quotes the minister as saying.
"So they should either give us a licence in London or go."
The minister also spoke to the BBC in Nairobi about the issue.
Diplomatic relations between the UK and Kenya have been strained since
2004 when former UK envoy to Kenya Sir Edward Clay accused unnamed corrupt
officials of behaving "like gluttons" and "vomiting on the shoes" of donors.
Last week, a British foreign office minister, Kim Howells, warned that
endemic corruption in Kenya had made it a target for drug traffickers and
increasingly vulnerable to terrorism.
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