Why access to information and national security are not strange bedfellows

Press Freedom: The law affirms that national security is not fundamentally at odds with the freedom of expression and right to information. [Courtesy]

The brazen media shutdown of four national television stations-KTN News, Citizen, NTV and Inooro TV-early this week came as a shocker to many but it was not a surprise to me.

The shutdown, it is believed, was a consequence of the stations’ intention to undertake live coverage of the swearing in of opposition leaders Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka as the people’s president and Deputy President respectively.