{UAH} National Theatre management should apologise

National Theatre management should apologise

I hear that management at National Theatre threw out a group of tobacco farmers who had come to Kampala to petition the speaker of Parliament. The farmers had organised a press briefing on their petition concerning the Tobacco Control Bill, 2014.

It is very unfortunate that the management at National Theatre has not come out to apologise to these farmers as well as the media, whose money and time was wasted. According to what I know, the National Theatre is open to the general public. The management should have announced if there was a ban on media engagements at this place. Most, if not all of us, were taken aback by this discovery.

It is very unfortunate that the first people to experience this injustice were disgruntled tobacco farmers. These have better things to worry about such as Clause 49 of the bill that they all seem to be so concerned about.

Putting a media ban in a public place goes against the rights and freedoms of the media. This action needs to be cleared by the ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development and the management of the theatre.  

Richard Mpunga,
Kampala.

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