Govt Journos Walk Out on Minister
Does Anybody Know who these brave journalists are???
Reporting by The Standard
Harare
FOUR journalists from both the private and public media on Friday walked out on Deputy Minister of Health and Child Welfare, Dr
Edwin Muguti, as he was addressing an "urgent" Press conference to redeem himself from statements he made two weeks ago.
Among these were reporters from The Herald.
Muguti had earlier accused the National Aids Council (NAC) of under-performing and failing to account for funds it got through the National Aids Trust Fund, formerly the Aids Levy.
Although the Press conference was meant for Muguti to retract his statement, the deputy minister tried to shift the blame to the media.
He blamed the media for "unfair" coverage of his statements and said that the media had "blown the issue out of proportion" by making it appear as though there was a "major war" between the NAC and his ministry.
He said: "I want to put it on record that my criticism of NAC was taken out of context and that the statements I made were purely historical.
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