The old adage ‘Hard work pays’ is true for NBS Television’s news anchor Solomon Serwanjja after he was named this year’s winner of the prestigious BBC Komla Dumor Award at an event held in Lagos, Nigeria.
Serwanjja becomes only the second Ugandan to scoop the award that was inaugurated in 2014 by the BBC in honour and memory of their former journalist Komlar Dumor who worked for the news giant from 2006 until his passing in 2014.
The award comes with a three-month development contract with BBC where Serwanjja will also get to travel to Africa to report a story and have it shared across the continent and the world.
NBS congratulated their own in a tweet that reads, “Congratulations to our very own Solomon Serwanjja who has been named winner of the 2019 BBC World News Komla Dumor Award. Mr Serwanjja becomes the second Ugandan after Nancy Kacungira, to win the award and will spend the next three months at the BBC in London.”
This award comes after Serwanjja, through NBS Television in conjunction with BBC conducted an investigation into the theft of government drugs but health practitioners. Security would later briefly arrest his wife and some of his collaborators in the investigations, and later released.