‘Chicken’ protest over TV switch-off as civil society asks President Uhuru Kenyatta to tame runaway corruption

Police stand next to TV sets which were left behind by human rights activists after a demonstration Friday  outside the Communications Authority of Kenya offices on Waiyaki Way, Nairobi. The demonstrators accused the Government of deliberately switching off leading TV stations so that they can perpetrate acts of corruption since the public is in the dark. [ PHOTO BY: MBUGUA KIBERA/STANDARD]

Chicken, old television sets and placards characterised protests by outraged Civil Society activists opposing TV switch off outside Communications Authority of Kenya (CAK) offices in Nairobi.

The activists, yesterday called on President Uhuru Kenyatta to act in national interest and switch on the stations adding that 90 per cent of Kenyans who cannot afford set-top boxes have been given a raw deal.