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It's a bad day for the law when the State becomes the outlaw

KTN News Center. [File, Standard]

On Wednesday, the rule of law lay wounded. Its dignity bruised, its authority threatened, and its life hanging in the balance. The cold barrel of a gun was pressed against its head, not just by rogue criminals, but by the hands meant to uphold and defend it.

Kenya is in a constitutional crisis of conscience, one where the State is emerging as the lead violator of the law. On this dark day, the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA), through its Director General David Mugonyi, a journalist by profession, issued a directive that defies legal boundaries and aimed at snuffing out the last flames of democratic accountability.

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