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Why Uhuru should not assent to the tyrannical bill

Reading a local daily's headline makes you want to apply for a crash course in King Julien's Kingdom of physically fit lemurs. Because, very soon, we will be called upon to start running battles with those rogue MPs along Parliament Road. If President Uhuru Kenyatta assents to that tyrannical bill, it will be, officially, a crime to say anything MPs don't like; which includes, but not limited to; alerting my MP that his fly is open or just pointing out that his degree certificate resembles a Sabina Joy tissue paper. It is an affront to our basic freedoms. It is a bad law.

Many people see this a timely welcome to gag the media, who, they say, deserves Karma for their 'socialite news coverage'. This is where we must draw the line, because this law affects us all.

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