Reports indicate that NTV Uganda and Spark TV were taken off air in the early hours of Sunday following a heavy overnight security operation at NMG’s offices in Kampala.
Uganda’s Chief of Defence Forces (CDF), General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, has ordered the shutdown of NTV Uganda, Spark TV, and the Daily Monitor, declaring that he does not “believe in a free press.”
The Nation Media Group (NMG), a leading media conglomerate headquartered in Kenya, owns several outlets in Uganda, including the Daily Monitor newspaper, Spark TV, NTV Uganda, and radio stations such as KFM and Dembe FM.
Reports indicate that NTV Uganda and Spark TV were taken off air in the early hours of Sunday following a heavy overnight security operation at NMG’s offices in Kampala.
The crackdown came after General Kainerugaba, who is also President Yoweri Museveni’s son, posted a series of incendiary messages on X. In one, he announced: “Mzee has approved my plan to close both NTV and Monitor. We are moving immediately!”
