By Mulengera Reporters
In what some social media users have described as victory for her archrival Justine Namere, Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has inadvertently rendered Full Figure aka Jeniffer Nakangubi jobless by suspending the Omusunsuzi/analyst programme which she has been co-presenting every morning along with veteran broadcaster Charles James Ssenkubuge.
A statement from UCC, which is mandated to regulate activities appearing on all communication platforms, shows that the programme was breaching minimum broadcasting standards. Ironically, it has been one of the most popular and trending programmes on Pastor Aloysius Bugingo’s Salt Television based in Lungujja.
Yet not even when Bugingo, the owner is a diehard supporter of the President and his son Gen MK, UCC weighed in and cracked the whip on Salt TV’s most viewed/watched programme.
The impressive viewership has been a result of Full Figure’s approach of taking no prisoners and fearlessly telling off anyone. She recently was clobbered like a chicken thief by attackers who made it clear the beating was meant to reciprocate the verbal insults one of them claimed to have endured by her on media platforms.
“The Commission found that this programme, which airs on weekdays from 6am to 8am, contains abusive content, inappropriate language and displays unprofessional conduct by the presenters,” UCC stated in a media statement. “These broadcasts occur during morning hours when children are likely to be watching, potentially exposing them to unsuitable material.”
Riding on it’s mandate, deriving from the Uganda Communications Act and the attendant regulations, UCC has directed the Salt Media management to immediately stop airing the controversial programme on which Full Figure has been appearing for two hours every morning (Monday-Friday).
Saying that the Commission has been receiving numerous complaints from members of the public and victims of the venomous content Full Figure has been spewing for all these years, Salt Media has also been directed to tender a written explanation responding to the concerns which the aggrieved persons have been raising.
Specifically, the Commission has demanded for the full recordings of the programme as was aired between 1st August and 12th September 2025. “Salt TV must confirm compliance with this directive and submit the requested materials to the UCC by Friday 19th September 2025.”
This is all indicative of the fact that, as the country counts down to the heat that predictably will be generated by the 2026 campaigning season, UCC will be cracking the whip and enforcing all the media ethics and professionalism-enhancing rules like never before. This evidently is going to be the case, regardless of who the media platform owner is.
Already the Commission is under immense pressure from different stakeholders and political actors to crack the whip on those who breach the minimum broadcasting standards in fulfilment of its statutory mandate that requires the leadership at the Bugolobi-based regulator to protect the public against consumption of harmful or offensive content.
Full Figure’s employer is merely the latest to face UCC’s regulatory wrath because days earlier, YouTuber Dean Lubowa Saava’s TV10 Gano Mazima was sanctioned and raided-sending staffers into disarray.
The Commission’s enforcement teams raided the online channel’s premises in Mengo and confiscated all the broadcasting equipment and preferred illegal broadcasting charges against the proprietor. The Commission justified the raid and action against Saava on almost similar grounds on top of illegal broadcasting claims.
Subsequent media reports indicated that the proprietor was on the run and in hiding as the Commission continued hunting for him with the aim of bringing him to book. With pressure coming from all directions as aggrieved citizens file complaints, the Commission has indicated its determination not to relent until full compliance is enforced.
Much earlier on, Next Media had suffered the wrath of the regulator when their UnCut Kalakata programme, which had become the most popular and most watched in the country, was forced off air and the entire crew was sent in disarray.
Some of the crew members were locked up and remanded at Kitalya whereafter the likes of Kaiz fled in search of greener pastures abroad. Life has never been the same again for the viewers, NBS as a station and for individual presenters who had made a name for themselves as Lugambo Queens. Remarkably, their broadcasts and the content they used to air was not as crude or radical as the unrepentant Saava’s.
Officials at UCC are increasingly convinced that there is no way the regulator, who managed to overcome such a powerful crew, anchored under the roof of a powerful media empire like Next Media, can fail to extinguish less prolific ones like Saava or even Full Figure. (For comments on this story, get back to us on 0705579994 [WhatsApp line], 0779411734 & 041 4674611 or email us at mulengeranews@gmail.com).
