Kazako says MBC resisting change: Malawi taxpayer-funded broadcaster should not be used as propaganda tool
Minister of Information and Malawi government spokesperson Gospel Kazako says President Lazarus Chakwera is not impressed with the slow pace at taxpayer-funded Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC).
The straight talking Kazako said this on Wednesday when he met members of staff of the MBC at Golden Peackock in Blantyre.
Kazako said MBC is resisting to change.
He said some changes in positions at MBC are not aimed at persecuting or victimising some individuals.
The former broadcaster at MBC, Kazako also said Chakwera and his government are not happy that MBC continues to cover Tonse Alliance a lot at the expense of opposition parties.
According to Kazako, MBC has just replaced DPP with Tonse.
“The Tonse Alliance government has learnt a lot from the past. We don’t want MBC to continue to be used as a propaganda tool,” said Kazako.
He has gone further to tell MBC staff to forget about politics.
Kazako has also questioned why most news items on MBC are about cabinet ministers and reduced to a presidential diary bulletin.
On changes in positions , Kazako has urged the people who have been promoted not punish or ridicule others.
The minister said there was need to change faces at MBC and bring in new programmes.
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Iwe kazako, usatipusitse I’ve ayi! Unali Ku MBC konko ndipo ukudziwa zomwe zakhala zikuchitika. Mesa nthawi imeneyo umakhala Ku chilomoni kwa nthukwa? Usauze anthu zabodza ayi, anthufe tidzimva ngati ukunena zowona pomwe ukumawauza zochita chapansipansipo. Remember that chakwera appointed u as minister to appease for being his mouthpiece munthawi ya DPP and nothing has changed with ur zodiak. Stop fooling us plz
kazako is a fool
Gospel I don’t know whether you are listening to trash that Zodiak is becoming? It is like MBC Radio and TV 3. At least the real MBC is being replaced by Zodiak don’t worry. Soon they will change for good as all praise singing is happening from Area 47 and not Chichiri as you claim
How he
The minister is giving advice to MBC when his own media house is practicing the same.
His media house can afford to do that because it is not funded by government.
Osaiwalatu Mr. Kazako kuti radio yanu posachedwapa pemphero limakhala kufika ponena kuti “Ngati ndichilango mutipatse china koma awa asalowenso m’boma.” Kusonyeza kuti ngakhala your own radio is not impartial”. Ifenso timafuna kuti boma lisinthe koma musawapange a MBC kukhala osailira inunso muli chimodzimodzi.
Some of us do not listen to MBC because it was spoiled during the last 26 years. If MBC continues doing the same bad things people would now start insulting the MCP led government. MCP has learnt a bitter lesson for being in opposition for 26 years. The party was lucky to have survived. Kenneth Kaunda’s party UNIP is almost dead. Very like DPP will die a natural death in a few years. So MBC must not tarnish MCP or the Tonse government. Kadzako do you know that most of the cadets are still there? Those people are relatives of dpp officials. I just do not want to mention names.
Trump won because people did not want Hillary Clinton..chakwera won because people did not want mutharika. So people are tired with the traditional usual politics and politicians..by making news and programs 70% airtime to the ruling party..it slowly makes it boring and hated and creates a dislike and an appetite for the alternative I.e opposition. Zodiak radio make a fortune from providing the alternative.. same as al Jazeera cashes on the same item. Balanced news and coverage is what grows a media and make it self sustaining financially. So when you cover for example a news article about govt building covid centres.. cover opinion about those working there and patients too. Then also cover government ministers too. Cover it from all sides..in so doing it even takes out the appetite for people to dear from positive because the govt is self criticism and constructive
Here for example kazako has made the show minister of information in DPP obsolete or null and void and have made him useless. Because the opposition main point of media is unfair coverage but if govt has raised the issue and want to address it then. What can opposition saym nothing. They created the problem. Just be proffessional. Gone are the days when a foot all coverage was taken off air to cover the party women dances. This create hatred towards the ruling party..that’s how people get voted out.
You want MBC to change. Just do one thing. Change the laws so that neither the president not any minister should appoint positions or have any control on MBC.. you don’t expect any sensible journalist to criticize or sideline a government that has powers to fire him/her or silence him/her.
For surev
apart from kamuzu! ena ose anangolowa kuyamba kugawa zindalama anthu kuyamba kulemera ngati angowedza cuma.
satanic money.
kuyamba kusiya kugwola ncita nkuyamba uhule. and now most of them are walking around look the
PENGUINS.
you are all over the place mate, economic liberalization and privatization gave those who already had it a chance hence the millionaires. Unfortunately, most of them were rent seekers with no growth plan. in other countries, entrepreneurs move faster than the government but this did not happen kwathu Kuno.
2: There is nothing like satanic money. leave religion out of politics.
3: Am guessing ukukamba za street hookers, personally i see no problem as long as u are old enough. ngati ukukamba zachiwerere let people enjoy there life, not everyone is miserable
This is a decoy. Even his very Zodiak runs with MCP propaganda and that’s how he got the ministerial position. These folks dont have to lie to us. They are the ones resisting change. Kanamizeni ana with your stories.
How Gospel runs his media house is no concern of the Malawians. How MBC is run concerns us for it is run on People’s taxes.
Thank you for this minister but if we want to have a genuine reformed MBC we need review the MBC first. All the employees will always be conscious of you as politicians. They know that immediately you are in the wrong and they speak out you will use clauses to fire them. Secondly honorable why take the chaff from main office to regional offices? What you have done by transfering the chaff to other duty stations means you are abaiting mediocrity and that you are keeping them to go back at some point and do worse.Why not fire them ? Why would you want them around in the public domain. These are people who are not needed anywhere close to the broadcasting house. We ask you that if you are serious first fire those who messed up our beautiful MBC and stop thundering while transfering them elsewhere.
Mr minister don’t cheat Malawians that MBC is resisting change. Who at MBC is so powerful to set aside your or macra directives? Don’t tell its the innocent engineer Gumeni, the ag director general!
Just use MBC the way the former ruling parties have used it nthawi yanu ikazakwana kuzabwera ena and will do the same, sizonamiziranazo kuti so and so is resisting change. Who at Zodiac Mr minister can say fweefwee at u? Kubalalika uka uku basi nenani zina. Kuendetsa boma sichibwana panopa approval rating ya Chakwera is below 50%. That’s disappointing for a man who had over 55% at the polls just 5 months ago.
Whatever the case Chakwera is better than your stupid old fool who was guided by norman and others cadets. Panopa mukulephera kuba anyapapi that’s why you say this and tha. Listen Malawi is for Malawians not one tribe as was the case with stupid Ana onse a Muthalika. Muluzi was better pankhani imeneyi though he was the one fueling the same. Chibwana siyani osamangolankhurapo ayi. This nation belongs to all of us.
then was the only renowned broadcasting corporation. nthawi ya lockdown our kids could have at least benefited much from the school programmes.
ndipo kunali anthu oti odziwika bwino ndi ukadaulo othandizila.
bwanji a lucious Chikuni. Sam nkhono akati ana inu iwe kumaona ngati ali nkalasi mommo. a benson tembo oti akanamenyerera ufulu oti zinthu ziziyenda mokomera a Mw .kunali gulu ndipo mizwanya. othyakula ma program .otiso zizungu kalankhulidwe kumanva zolongosoka.
nde pa dzanapo ena kungolowesapo kuti tizionapo
madazi ao
zimimba zao
ma step ao opotoka potoka
magwelu ao
kutukwana kwao
ndalama zolipila kukhala from kholo la mwana akumumana u human right. shaaaaa. Sad sad sad.
kozaniso MBC
Hon Kazako, MBC has come from political alignment since inception. During Kamuzu era, it was all about Ngwazi this Ngwazi that..came Muluzi, Bingu, JB, APM to Chakwera. Best was to come up with editorial policy change, train the staff, monitor and enforce it. Kunena pakamwa sizithandiza since it is the same Ministers amakhala ndi ma journalist awo amene amachita kuwatenga to cover them.
The Minister should not intimidate the people at MBC.He just have to assure them of their job security and give the people relevant training. The house has been serving the political powers that govern. He should not therefore talk of removing people as if he himself has never experienced the political pressure that is there at MBC. He just have to assure the staff of their safety and let the journos do their job period!!! Osaopseza anthu , Mr Kadzako.
Shaaa! Amuchotsa u minister uja basi!
Mr. Minister you should be an experienced broadcaster hence know the calibre of newsmen Malawi as a nation proudly parades. It is unfortunately not their fault that they are producing substandard coverage of whatever is aired. The catch is on the quality of training they receive and who delivers the training. In most cases you will note that a journalist or news reporter who is ignorant of the news being beamed is given a task he/she doesn’t know. For example you pick a general duties reporter to conduct an interview on health or economy yet he doesn’t know anything in that field; how do you expect such a miserable person to confidently go about in his assigned exercise?
Prominent and organised media houses will usually employ personnel qualified in all fields so that when there is a need to cover a certain function, a newsman qualified in that field will be assigned for the same. This is what makes those reporters to become more effective. A reporter is not meant to be aggressive, rude and expect the responses he has in mind, and at times even argue with the respondent. That is exactly how Brian Banda works, very unprofessional. Reputable reporters from BBC, VOA or Aljazeera will press a respondent whenever they notice that he is lying or not conversant with what is expected of him/her. Mind you, the media is there to inform and educate the general public who at the end of the day is a tax payer. It is therefore not there to shame or antagonise the listener with government, company or institution. So as a minister who was once an employee in a media house he is pointing fingers at, all he needs to do is to give a directive that the personnel requirers re-training, period.
Are they all brainwashed or ignorant?
No, MBC like elsewhere cheaply please always the masters of the day in the hope to gain material wise, but forget their real obligations! Look at all our government related companies, all the same…! See ESCOM, Water boards…, you name it!