Ruling party officials storm radio station's general meeting in Zambia
On 18 June 2013, supporters of Zambia's ruling Patriotic Front (PF) party disrupted the annual general meeting of Mkushi FM and demanded to be elected to the board of the radio station. Mkushi is in central Zambia.
In an email to the Zambia Chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA-Zambia), Mkushi FM station manager, Boniface Susa, said that the ruling party supporters who hold political office stormed the AGM at about 9:45 am.
"Dear Sir, I would like to inform you that 30 PF cadres [supporters] led by their district vice chairman Emmanuel Sinkonde, district youth chairman Davies Mwenya and Chibefwe councillor Topson Kunda this morning at 09:45hrs disrupted our annual general meeting. They just stormed inside the hall," Susa wrote.
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