Information Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i fails to attend key meet on digital TV row

Media owners, from left, Wilfred Kiboro, SK Macharia and Sam Shollei with National Assembly Energy Committee Chairman Jamleck Kamau after the committee meeting at Continental House. [PHOTOS: BONIFACE OKENDO/STANDARD]

The Cabinet Secretary for Information and Communication Fred Matiang’i, skipped a crucial meeting with the bosses of the National Assembly with an excuse that he had already met MPs and explained to them the controversial decision to switch off four TV stations.

Mr Matiang’i was scheduled to present a paper on ‘Embracing the media and keeping pace with technology: The status of digital migration”, but he cancelled the date with the chairpersons of all committees and top party leaders within the National Assembly.