Africa-Press – Zambia. President Hakainde Hichilema has led tributes to the late veteran journalist and media consultant Edem Djokotoe. The local media fraternity is mourning Mr. Djokotoe, who died late on Wednesday night at Fairview Hospital in Lusaka.
The Ghanaian born media guru had been battling colorectal cancer. Mr. Djokotoe aged 62 was a renowned writer, educator and poet. In his facebook post, President Hichilema praised the former journalism lecturer as a scribe who sought the truth.
“We are deeply saddened to learn of the untimely death of veteran journalist Edem KG Djokotoe, who passed away in Lusaka yesterday. Edem was not only a man of nobility and learning in his field, but was also an unrepentant advocate of social justice, and a defender of human rights who abhorred injustices against the people. He belonged to a generation of scribes who sought for the truth on both sides of the story and wrote the truth on both sides of the coin. There’s a lot to learn from the integrity of Edem Djokotoe. Our prayers and thoughts are with his family. May His Soul Rest in Peace,” President Hichilema wrote.
MISA Zambia Chairperson Fr. Barnabas Simatende, OMI has expressed grief over the demise of the veteran journalist and media trainer. Fr. Simatende said MISA will remember Mr. Djokotoe for his profound contribution to MISA Journalist Kennedy Gondwe recalled the time he spent with Djokotoe.
“Words are not enough to describe how I feel to lose a brother, a friend. I was privileged and blessed to share my life with one of the most astute journalism minds that has graced this country. The funeral is at House No. 121 Foxdale Residential Estate, Zambezi Road, in Roma, Lusaka. Burial arrangements will be advised in due course,”Mr. Gondwe said.
Kitwe’s Radio Icengelo Chief Executive Officer Fr. Lewis Mutachila hailed Djokotoe as a media guru, great trainer and educator. “On behalf of Radio Icengelo, and indeed on my own behalf, we would like to express our heartfelt condolences to family, friends and Media fraternity for the loss of Mr. Edem Djokotoe. We are saddened that we have lost a guru, great trainer, educator, a person of immerse experience and astute person in journalism,” Fr. Mutachila said.
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