Koyo accused Moleka and Radio Top Lisala of making slanderous remarks against provincial authorities in their weekly broadcasts. He described the ban as a “precautionary measure that we have taken to maintain peace in the province” ahead of the presidential and parliamentary polls on December 20. Moleka denied insulting local authorities and told CPJ that he had denounced the arbitrary arrest of local people and slow implementation in the province of President Felix Tshisikedi’s flagship national program to combat poverty and inequality.
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Journalists have a critical role to play in a democracy by holding public officials to account. ” CPJ called on authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo to withdraw a criminal defamation complaint and arrest warrant for reporter Anicet Moleka. (Photo courtesy of Jonas Mboli) On December 20, Tshisikedi is expected to run for a second term against opposition leader Martin Fayulu, who claimed victory in the 2018 vote, and Nobel winning gynecologist Denis Mukwege. Mayor Koyo told CPJ that he issued an order on August 4 banning Moleka from reporting and sent it to the director of Radio Top Lisala, but the journalist defied the ban by appearing on Radio Top Lisala on September 30. Ngasa said that provincial interior minister Nestor Magbado called him on October 1 and threatened to close Radio Top Lisala if he continued to allow Moleka to report.
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Magbado confirmed to CPJ that he made the call and local authorities shut down the station for defying the mayor’s August ban on Moleka. Separately, Jonas Mboli, program director of privately owned Radio Liberté Lisala told CPJ that Mayor Koyo visited the station on September 27 and threatened to ban it for allowing members of the public to make derogatory comments about provincial authorities during a live phone-in show earlier that day. Mboli said he received a text, reviewed by CPJ, from the mayor the following day announcing the closure of the radio station in the coming days.
Under Congolese law, provincial authorities do not have the legal authority to ban journalists from reporting or to shut down media outlets. According to the DRC’s press law, introduced in March, it is the responsibility of the regulatory Superior Council of Audiovisual and Communication to issue such sanctions against media outlets and journalists for professional misconduct. Mayor Koyo told CPJ that he laid a complaint of criminal defamation—for which the penalty is up to five years in jail—against the journalist with Lisala prosecutor’s office on September 30 and it issued the arrest warrant the same day.
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