During President Kagame's latest press conference, the managing editor of Isango Star radio, Jean-Lambert Gatari decried the fact that some public institutions (Revenue Authority and National Police) were making plans to start their own radio station, as Parliament had already done. "I don't think there is a room for competition especially for us the private Radio owners who rely on public institutions' adverts and partnership to survive. We have no capacity to compete with the state," Gatare observed.
The President agreed, saying that public institutions should not own their own radio station but make use of the national broadcaster Orinfor or private ones. He did not buy into the argument of Local Government Minister James Musoni (also responsible for media), who explained that Parliament was given permission to have its own station so that it could broadcast the debates in the House.
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