Two sports journalists in Uganda have been arrested on a charge of extortion. Police accused Yasser Kalyango of the Daily Monitor and Henry Katamba Mutyaba of Kabozi Kubiiri radio of extorting 1.5m Ugandan shillings (about £4,000) from the boss of the National Water and Sewerage Company.
They are said to have approached Apollo Muheirwe with an offer to clear him of allegations about contaminated water and embezzlement in return for money.
But Muhairwe tape-recorded their conversations and reported the matter to the police.
The managing editor of the Daily Monitor, Daniel Kalinaki said there will be an in-house inquiry.
"These actions, if true, constitute criminal and unethical behaviour," he said. "They contradict ethical guidelines that forbid our reporters and editors from soliciting or receiving inducements of any kind to run or not to run stories in the newspaper."
Source: AllAfrica.com
