Mr President, drop the draconian and exclusivist path you’ve chosen

By Barrack Muluka

 Receive friendly greetings this festive season. With historical hindsight, allow me to reproduce a piece that I published in this column on March 16th.  I do so as I have heard President Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto say that newspapers are useless. That they should be used to wrap meat – never mind that few people can afford meat, even at Christmas. And so the President has assented to draconian media laws, to put in check the “trouble makers.”