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Adan Keynan agrees to amend bill gagging media

Eldas MP Adan Keynan

The spotlight now turns to MPs to approve amendments to a contentious proposed law and remove restrictive provisions that interfere with freedom of the media in covering parliamentary proceedings.

After months of pressure by journalists and other stakeholders to have the offensive clauses in the Parliamentary Powers and Privileges Bill, 2014, deleted, the mover of the bill, Eldas MP Adan Keynan Monday turned up in Parliament to declare he will introduce the amendments on the floor of the House to expunge the draconian provisions.

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