For a government beleaguered on all sides by a host of seemingly intractable problems, one would think that a war with the press would be the last thing on its laundry list of things to do.
This is because experience has shown that government invariably loses the fight, although it may succeed in shutting down radio stations, banning journalists or even physically attacking or killing them, in the end the government always loses the propaganda war.
But just why would the Minister of Information, absent any semblance of due process order media institutions to ban the airing or publication of material produced by its strident critic, Henry Costa. Costaâs radio station has since been shut over a year ago but critics claim that the action by the GoL was illegal because of the lack of âDue Processâ attending its closure. And they have cited Constitutional provisions, Article 15, specifically.