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Outrage as Police summon Standard Group boss, KTN reporters over Westgate story

 Hooded gunmen raided Westgate Mall last month, killing 67 people and wounding several others according to official reports. [PHOTO: FILE/STANDARD]

By MOSES MICHIRA and CYRUS OMBATI

NAIROBI, KENYA: In what could be the first assault on media freedom under the Jubilee government, police have targeted the Standard Group over a report aired on television station KTN. Police are seeking the Group’s Chief Executive Sam Shollei and two KTN journalists, Mohammed Ali and John-Allan Namu, over the investigative report on the Westgate Mall terrorist attack.

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