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JED submits a request to the Head of State for the suppression of the Ministry in charge of Communication and Media
2012-03-12 |
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In a letter addressed to the President of Republic, Joseph Kabila, on Friday 9 March 2012, Journaliste en Danger (JED) called for the suppression of "Ministry of Communication and Media", and any other department in charge of Information and Press, from the nomenclature of the ministries of the next government.
JED introduced the request to the Head of State’s Office based on, on the one hand, a provision in the preamble of the Act No. 96-002 of 22 June 1996 regarding the procedures for the exercise of Press freedom, which stipulates: "Awaiting the establishment of the legal structure responsible for the monitoring and neutrality of the public media, in accordance with Article 58 paragraph 6 of the Constitutional Act of the transition, its competence remains under the control of the ministry in charge of Information and Press "and on the other hand, given that several abuses of the press freedom and recursive interferences are committed by officials, including the Ministry of Communication and media, in the press work, and which have significantly reduced the margin of manoeuvre of CSAC (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel et de la Communication, DRC media regulator) in its powers to "guarantee the right of people to pluralist, reliable and objective information, and to ensure neutrality and fairness of public, private and community media ".
For JED, the creation and the establishment of CSAC, a public body with broad powers of media regulator, in compliance with the Article 212 of the Constitution, no more accommodate with the existence of a Ministry responsible for media that often tends to encroach on the prerogatives of CSAC.
JED also mentioned that, as the government of the first legislature of the Third Republic has just resigned following the establishment of a new Parliament, and while the President of Republic is about to set up a new government in line with his vision of the "Revolution of modernity" (note: the Head of State’s new five-year programme), the suppression of the "Ministry of Communication and Media" that tarnishes the democratic image of the DRC, will be a strong signal and a concrete act of his will of democratic openness and modernization of the DRC.
JED reminded the Head of State that the successive ministers in charge of information and press have often, however, behaved like great editors of the National Broadcaster, preventing it from being a real public service media and accessible to all political and social tendencies.
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