It’s all not well as Mubende FM Station manager Kibalama Yusufu Kato is currently nursing wounds sustained from terrible beating by radio staff.
According to a source in Mubende, the angry radio presenters beat up Mr. Kibalama to pulp after working for a whole year without receiving any single salary remuneration.
It is understood that in last week, Kibalama ran into hiding and has been away from the station after angry presenters stormed his office demanding their pay.
However, upon his return to the station, situation went out of his hands when the presenters attacked him again and this time they had no time to listen to his excuses and chose to beat him up, leaving him with bleeding nose.
Mubende FM 106.0 went off air in November last year due to technical issues but before it went off, presenters were unpaid for 5 months.
When the radio went off air, the station manager convinced the workers not join other stations and wait for it to get back on air. He further promised them that they are working on having them paid despite the technical issues.
It’s against the background that the presenters are asking for their unpaid one year. Our effort to reach Mr. Kibalama for a comment was rained as he refused to open up about the saga.
Mathias Rukundo, the Uganda Journalist Association (UJA) president revealed to Monitor that cases of Mubende FM and Top Media as whole owned by Pastor Jackson Ssenyonga not paying employees have been reputation in his office.
“We have received several cases about Ssenyonga not paying his employees, we tried to engage him on phone but our hard work has fruitless as he refused to respond to our calls. This time we are going take this matter serious this time. This is turning a habit we can’t tolerate in our profession,” UJA boss Mathias Rukundo told Monitor.
Mubende FM presenters have written a letter to the Uganda Communication Commission (UCC) and the Ministry of Labour office, Mubende and are set to submit the letters on Thursday, July 20, 2023 if their concerns are not worked on by that date.
