The following Media Alert was prepared by MISA-Zambia. Contact Jane Chirwa at info@misazambia.org.zm for more information. Times of Zambia has suspend News Editor Enock Ngoma and Chief Reporter Kaiko Namusa over a missing document that is said to have been faxed to Times Managing Editor Godfrey Malama from the Ministry of Information Permanent Secretary Emmanuel Mwamba carrying allegations against an embattled Minister of Justice who is also the General Secretary of the Patriotic Front (PF) ruling party Honourable Wynter Kabimba. The Secretary General of the PF is the third in command in the ruling party.
According to media reports and investigations undertaken by MISA Zambia, the Times of Zambia is alleged to have suspended the two journalists indefinitely because a fax containing allegations against the justice minister found its way in a private newspaper; The Post and could not be traced at Times of Zambia offices. This is despite the allegations in the fax being published in the Times of Zambia newspapers.
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