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Was it a coincidence that the day Uhuru Kenyatta invited the retired President Moi and the retired Nicholas Biwott to State house was the same day that the retired General Joseph Nkaissery ordered for the arrest of a journalist simply for being a journalist? Was it a coincidence too that it was the the same day that Uhuru Kenyatta made the first step towards an old Moi era, divide and rule move on the KNUT?
The retired trio seemed unaware that things had changed so much and that there was a new constitution with a strengthened bill of rights which does no longer allow for arrest of a journalist for simply making information that is not classified in the first place, public information.
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