Batooro burn copies of Red Pepper over Komuntale. KABAROLE- Members of the self-styled “Tooro Local Parliament”, a local pressure group in Fort Portal Town, have asked subjects of Tooro Kingdom to boycott Red Pepper and its sister publications for allegedly publishing ill content about Princess Ruth Nsemere Komuntale, King Oyo and the kingdom at large. This comes after the Uganda media and social networks last week were awash with reports that Princess Komuntale and Duke Christopher Thomas had separated, less than a year after their pomp wedding in Fort Portal. The reports angered many Batooro as expressed last week by the kingdom prime minister, Mr Stephen Kaliba, who asked Mr Thomas to stop posting more dirt on the social media. However, back home, some aggrieved Batooro through their local self-styled parliament, have taken another action. On Tuesday, they did not stop at asking people to boycott, but also bought all Red Pepper newspapers off the streets and burnt them. The speaker of Tooro Local Parliament, Mr John Kaguma, said the Red Pepper, together with its sister papers such as Hello Uganda, Kamunye and Entatsi, have not been reporting objectively about Tooro Kingdom and its people. Against Tooro “These papers have never reported positively about our kingdom, they always look for negative issues in order to tarnish the image of Tooro. They always want to be against our kingdom,” said Mr Kaguma. Tooro Local Parliament is a pressure group of mainly youths that among others, fights bad governance and acts against human rights in the region. Recently King Oyo visited the group at Momo Hotel. When contacted, Mr Arinaitwe Rugyendo, the director-marketing and digital media at Pepper Publications Ltd said: “The actions on the Red Pepper are fascist, terrorist and unintelligent. We will take up the matter with the more progressive and enlightened wing of the kingdom. These unintelligent cliques should stop denigrating King Oyo and the rest of his good subjects by portraying the kingdom as intolerant to media freedoms.” “This story was already stale. Now they have resurrected it. We did not force the princess and the duke to pour out their anger on social media. We simply picked this story in our normal and professional duty as journalists. We will be requesting the police to look into this heinous crime and apprehend the culprits.” He said those burnt copies did not carry anything about the princess. He also said Pepper Publications Ltd had agreed to respect the princess as she goes through the trying time.
Posted on: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 04:05:40 +0000
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