Did you know that Gordon Wavamunno reportedly sacked journalists who did not cover him in a traffic jam?

By Correspondent

Today, The Drone Media is revisiting  stories about Gordon Wavamunno, which portray his unethical and unprofessional behaviour he used to torture journalists.

The Ugandan businessman Gordon Wavaumunno; would reportedly drive around Kampala and whenever he would find a traffic jam would then call back at WBS TV to ask for a reporter to come and record the traffic jam. The trouble would emerge, say you recorded the traffic jam, but the Chairman, Gordon Wavamunno was not included in the story. Sometimes reporters would find when the traffic jam has cleared, but this would earn them a sacking.

As fate would have it, soon Wavamunno lost control of his television station over a huge tax debt. According to a report by Uganda’s Daily Monitor, Wavah Broadcasting Service (WBS) television, a free-to-air TV Station in Uganda which Wavamunno founded in 1997, was put on receivership by the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) for failing to clear tax liability amounting to UGX 7.2billion ($2.1 million) which it accumulated over a period of many years.

WBS TV, which had been struggling with lackluster ratings and cash flow problems for a while then, was delinquent in paying its tax bills for the last several years.

Abdul-Salaam Waiswa, the URA’s debt collection manager, said WBS TV’s tax arrears had accumulated over a 10-year period and that the revenue authority  was taking over the station until the bills are paid. He said that negotiations have been ongoing between the tax collectors and Wavamunno for a while, and that both parties decided to put the station under receivership rather than closing the business completely.

“We have not closed WBS but we have put it under receivership. This means that we have taken over the management of the station. And we have appointed Mr Kabito Karamagi, a lawyer, who will manage the company until such a time that the tax liability is cleared and the station is back on its footing,” Waiswa said.