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Vernacular political debates: Kenya’s Editors’ Guild accuses government of interference

Kenya Editors Guild President Churchil Otieno [Samson Wire. Standard].

Just days after ICT and Youth Affairs Cabinet Secretary Joe Mucheru appointed a task force to oversee localised political debates  in the country, the Kenya Editors’ Guild has opposed the move, terming it ‘State interference in editorial work during a general election’.

The Kenya Editors’ Guild has written to the CS asking him to rescind the decision in the interest of media freedom.

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