Long serving NTV Senior Reporter Jjingo Francis has joined the Office of the Prime Minister as Communications Advisor.
He starts work at OPM on April 17, 2024.
In a short interview, Jjingo told Bbeg Media that he leaves the media without any regrets.
He said: “I have served NTV Uganda for almost 18 years and before that I worked at Radio Uganda now UBC diligently. I don’t have any record of taking bribes in my journalism career. Having worked [as a reporter] at Parliament for years. I was identified by the then EALA speaker Dan Fred Kidega to help him cover the regional assembly and what I have done there speaks for itself. For OPM to identify me is an honour and I want to thank the Rt Hon Prime Minister Nabbanja for accepting to be her Communications Advisor and the OPM at large. It’s not a simple task but I will deliver because I have never failed to a complish tasks given to me by my employers.”
Jjingo joined NTV from UBC in the mid 2000s and has been one of its most visible faces. He has covered Parliament, the East African Community and a number of other sectors.
He is the second senior reporter to exit NTV in the last couple of months. Ali Mivule, his former colleague, left in March to serve in the office of the Leader of Opposition. With Jjingo’s exit, NTV is now left with one senior field reporter, Sudhir Byaruhanga.
Jjingo’s exit comes at a time when Nation Media Uganda is restructring its news operations in the country that have left many journalists there uncertain of their future.
Yet it is also a blow to the media industry which increasingly has lost a number of senior and experienced personnel to other industries.
Jjinjo joins a long list of senior journalists who have exited the profession for “greener pastures.”
They include Chris Obore and Joseph Sabiti who work at Parliament; Charles Odongtho, who works at OPM; Barbara Among who works at Equity Bank.
