Kenyan media has too many enemies

Going down memory lane for as long as I can remember, politicians in Kenya have had an issue with media. My research reveals that all the past governments and even the current one has had a jab on the media. Various attempts over time have been made to gag the media. It is worse for the media when it exposes some rot in the system or rubs the rulers the wrong way.

Yet without a robust media the many positive changes that have occurred in this country in the spheres of politics, economy, business, law, technology, social, lifestyle and so on, would not have occurred. The media has been instrumental in the democratisation process and the birth of changes in the legal framework particularly in the realization of the new constitution. Without a robust media it is very likely Kenya would have been among the banana republics that are strewn in this world and Africa has storage of a quite a number of them.