Journalism owes us the truth on politics and graft cartels

A group of youth try to threaten a cameraman attached to Standard Media Group. [Courtesy]

Jimmy Brown Mwandigah laments that this year’s presidential election has already strayed from issues to trivia. His agonised note to me reads, “Is Kenya doomed to Third World status? This year’s presidential polls portend to be nauseating. The façade of the so-called ‘issue-based campaigns’ is melting faster than the ice-snowman.”