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Bill on media seeks to cripple journalism, limit free speech

Kenya: Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it first as a farce then as a tragedy.

Nowhere is this adage truer today than in the National Assembly, where the Cabinet Secretary for Information, Communication and Technology, Dr Fred Matiangi, brought flawed Bills that sought to rob the citizenry of their democratic rights under the guise of controlling the media.

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