News Anchor has demanded his salary live on-air.
Gatekeepers News reports that news anchor Kabinda Kalimina has expressed his displeasure with his employer’s failure to pay his salary in a live news broadcast. He works for KBN TV.
The Zambian News presenter lost his cool by ranting after a roundup of the top stories.
Kalimina, in the live broadcast, went off script and demanded his salary as well as the salaries of his coworkers who were yet to be paid.
He said, “Away from the news, ladies and gentlemen, we are human beings. We have to get paid. Unfortunately, on KBN, we haven’t been paid. People are getting instruments on KBN…Sharon and everyone else haven’t been paid, including myself (sic). We have to get paid.”
Below is the video:
KBN TV, in a statement, noted that Kalimina is a part-time presenter and expressed shock at his “drunken behaviour.”
The Owner and Chief Executive Officer of the station, Kennedy Mambwe, in the statement, said the management is investigating how Kalimina found himself on air.
Mambwe added that anyone who assisted Kalimina in his outrageous stunt would face disciplinary action.
He further said,
“As KBN TV, we are appalled with the drunken behaviour exhibited through a video clip that has gone viral on social media and staged by one of our part-time presenters during what should have been the main news bulletin last night.
“As a young television station, we work with a very highly talented and professional team, with a noble character, and we owe the success of unbroken broadcasting for the last two years to such gallant men and women.
“Members of the public may wish to know that KBN TV, like any other institution, has very well-established grievance procedures for all members of staff through which they can channel their complaints.
“Therefore, last night’s behaviour by Kabinda Kalimina is out of character and does not represent who we are as a station. We strongly condemn that despicable behaviour and urge public members to treat that ‘One-Night stunt of Fame’ with the contempt it deserves.
As management, we are carrying out investigations to determine how a drunken part-time presenter found himself on air unabated, and disciplinary action will be taken against anyone who may have been party to the scheme.”
” No doubt this looks like the management of the station making a desperate face-saving move”, said a Nigerian news anchor. “How can they say he was drunk? Why didn’t the management address the issue raised by Kabinda? Is it true or plain lies” said another.
Findings by Gatekeepers News show that many news anchors in Africa are either poorly paid or owed salaries for months or years.
