Correspondents

About 75 percent of the content published in all NMG publications is the work of correspondents, casual workers who are paid peanuts for the sweat of their labour. Though NMG prides itself as the champion of human rights and publishes stories on how other companies oppress their employees, the opposite happens in NMG.

Correspondents are today’s modern slaves. Although they toil so hard, they end up being paid peanuts and most of them live in abject poverty and die in misery. This lot is paid by the length of the stories they write. But the mode of calculation is top secret by the NMG leadership to ensure a huge chunk is taken away from the poor correspondents to take care of the hefty salaries of their bosses.

That is one way the Editorial bosses manage to live within the department’s budget. We demand better pay. Most correspondents remain unemployed during their entire careers. It's a miracle for the correspondents, especially those in the rural areas to earn Sh5,000 a month. Isn't it immoral for editors and a group of well connected staff to go smiling all the way to the bank and the poor and voiceless correspondents can't have a decent living.

We demand a complete overhaul of the entire Editorial Dept. Idle bosses and all those tainted with corruption must be sent packing. We need transparent criteria of employment, promotions and sharing of training opportunities. There will never be any peace in Nation Centre until these demands are met. We are tired of selling our blood for peanuts.

The spouses of all the people implicated in the sex scandal will soon be hearing from us. The red flag has been raised. Be on the look out.

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