Nape Nnauye Says Using Parliamentary Studio Has Positive Effects

 Minister of Information, Culture, Art and Sports Hon. Nape Nnauye said the parliamentary decision to establish one studio to record Bunge (Parliament) sessions and distribute to other independent radio and television stations has a number of positive effects to all wananchi (citizens). 

Nnauye said few amongst the positive effects is that the budget to Bunge live shall be reduced at a large percent. Wananchi who don't have time to watch Bunge live due to their daily obligations will have opportunity to watch the recorded session every evening and night after they have done their daily duties. Infact statistics show that ever since the new arrangements of not broadcasting Bunge live were officially implemented, number of wananchi who watch the session has increase abundantly. (Seriously Minister)

Here under is how daily news is reporting this issue:

Mr. Nnauye told the National Assembly here on Monday evening that using Parliamentary studio had positive effects, including reduction of costs, as radio and television stations would not be necessitated to install broadcast systems inside the debating chamber.

Instead, according to the minister, the stations would receive the signals through the satellite for public consumption. The minister was debating budget estimates of the Prime Minister’s Office presented last week.

The new studio will be operating under Clean Feed and independent radio and television stations would need to hook frequencies of Parliament, if they would need to broadcast live Bunge sessions.

The Parliament studio will be processing information on its own before circulating to other media organs.

Minister Nnauye, therefore, refuted the claims by the opposition camp that through the Parliamentary studio, there would be total blackout of Parliamentary proceedings and that would deny wananchi their constitutional rights of being informed of what was going on.

“Maybe this is a question of understanding.

What people are being targeted here? We are talking of wananchi who woke up in the morning and went to their respective working places and in the evening get opportunity to know what transpired in Parliament,” he said.

The minister pointed out that statistics were showing that under the current arrangement of not beaming live the parliamentary proceedings, the number of citizens who are monitoring sessions has tremendously increased.

He further brushed aside claims that the system has been abruptly introduced by Parliament office without consultation and approval of the National Assembly.

The Minister pointed out that such system was passed by Parliament in the 2015/2016 budget session in presence of all MPs.