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Threat to media is threat to democracy

We have noted with interest a recent media release signed by one Nlayidzi Force Gambule registering a concern about recent media reports carried by local newspapers.

Gambule’s concerns, he alleges, are precipitated by articles carried by various media houses alleging cases of corruption being investigated by the Directorate on Corruption ad Economic Crime (DCEC).

He was particularly irked by the reality that the concerned media houses had revealed “damaging and sensitive information implicating members of the society and purporting to be emanating from the DCEC.” He further decried that the said articles are not only “wreaking reputational and integrity of the operations of the DCEC.”

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