Rights group condemns new nondisclosure rule by PSC

Nairobi, Kenya: International Center for Policy and Conflict (ICPC) strongly abhors the Public Service Commission of Kenya (PSC) new rule blocking civil servants and other public officials from disclosing information held by the State.

In a statement sent to newsrooms, International Center for Policy and Conflict executive director Ndung’u Wainaina stated that the rule is insulting and an outrageous step in recreating KANU Era of opaque securocrat state and state answerable only to the state itself. He says it takes the country back to period where executive orders and regulations were used to obliterate and circumvent Constitution.  Authoritarianism is nurtured and maintained not by intolerance and brutality only.  It is upheld by extensive silencing of freedom of expression.