Jubilee declares advertising blackout on local media

Head of Civil Service and President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Chief of Staff Joseph Kinyua. (Photo: Boniface Okendo/Standard)

The Jubilee government has frozen all advertisements to the country’s four main national newspapers in a move likely to put it in a collision course with the media industry.

A special Cabinet meeting early this month resolved to have the State start its own publication referred to as MY.GOV, where all adverts will be published. All State agencies too have been asked to direct adverts to the publication.