Group of journalists deployed to cover Democratic Party weekly press briefing held at city house on Tuesday walked out protesting the endemic failure by the party leadership to keep time.
The conference was supposed to be addressed by party President Norbert Mao who came in shortly after the journalists had left the premises.
DP’s weekly press briefing is supposed to start at exactly 10:00am but by 11:30am, none of the party leaders had turned up at the venue.
The protest was led by the CBS senior report Shalif Lukenge who claimed that they (journalists) are tired of being taken for granted whenever they come to cover the weekly meeting.
“We want to be considered as important people, we have deadlines for the bulletins but whenever we come to DP offices we spent almost half a day on one assignment which is not fair,” he said.
Mr Lukenge urged DP leadership to change their tendency of not keeping time because it affects their deadline.
“As journalists covering DP weekly presser, we have agreed to move out of the press room. We agreed to move out immediately after the minutes they requested elapsed,” he said.