Scoop: a government member vs. the VIVA radio channel

Hostilities are opened between the home security minister and the HAT’s propaganda radio station belonging to Andry Rajoelina. Organes Rakotomihantarizaka did obviously not appreciate Lalatiana Rakotondrazafy’s attack perpetrated while reporting about the case Philippe Verdon. The star reporter actually appears ruthless against any attempt against loyalty to the ruling power’ s leader. The headlines make no secret: any single failure to respect oath is a betrayal, at worse, a putsch attempt!

The HAT minister Rakotomihantarizaka’s reply was filled with insulting irony:”I am holding people like Lalatiana (Rakotondrazafy) as 14 years old girls playing stories with stones, and doing nothing else as a living but reporting gossips”. A wee too far somehow, but the home security minister visibly knows which way he is close to: the way out of from the government.

The VIVA radio channel has actually spurred the dismissal of several of the HAT ministers and officials. Any minister failing from going the reporters’ way or from taking the wanted decision is allowed to feel concerned about the next reshuffle. And the next reshuffle is close, a technician government to be turned “consensual” by the introduction of the HAT’s new allies. Minister Rakotomihantarizaka has a lot to lose.

The VIVA channel’s reporters have been imposing their laws since their rewarded contribution to the putsch’s success back in 2009. Andry Rajoelina’s station has been given such an ascendency that officials judged not devoted to the Duce’s cause may expect to be politically; undisputdely  and irreversibly beheaded by the VIVA channel.

Organes Rakotomihantarizaka confirms the trend. The HAT minister retaliated by accusing VIVA’s reporters of being “wild predators” straining to intimidate state officials on air. The home security minister outlined that the concerned reported previously asked him to intervene personnally in favor of one of her acquaintances in the run of the recruitment of detective superintendent students. Hostilities are definitely opened.

History has never ever recorded any minister seemingly obeying to highly politicized state owned reporters. These reporters’ channel is definitely not the national watchdog, but rather the national leader’s personal wachtdog, a defense line for a regime, and not for democracy and rights, a symbol of press subduction instead of press freedom