Where else can Kenyan journalists seek justice?

Clobbered, locked  up in a police cell, attacked in a political rally, tossed out of a window of a storey building and harassment are familiar unpalatable words that aptly describe the grim situation in which media practitioners find themselves in the new Kenya.

Three journalists are in trouble over a story filed from a Parliamentary Committee proceedings on irregular and un-procedural purchases of security related equipment by the Interior Ministry. John Ngirachu, Nation Editor and two other colleagues, Alphonce Shiundu, Standard and James Mbaka, the Star, are the latest  victims of abuses of fundamental rights and freedoms in the hands of the mighty Executive, the Legislature and ruthless law enforcement agents.