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Top security organ ordered TV switch off

ICT CS Joe Mucheru when he appeared before the National Assembly ICT Committee at Parliament on 23/02/18. [Photo: Boniface Okendo, Standard]

The decision to shut down three television stations was made by the National Security Council chaired by President Uhuru Kenyatta.

The three - KTN News, NTV and Citizen TV - were switched off during Opposition leader Raila Odinga's 'swearing in' as 'people's president' on January 30.

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