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Blaming media for the shortcomings of government is dishonest

Journalists covering a past Council of Governors press conference. [File, Standard]

US President Donald Trump is the latest to launch a frontal attack on the remaining bulwark against executive impunity: a free media.

Trump is well represented locally by the likes of Homa Bay MP Peter Kaluma, who recently called for the cancellation of BBC's licence for airing an unflattering expose of police brutality in Kenya.

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