Maandamano: CAK decrees the 'revolution' shall not be televised

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I fully associate with the position sentiments from the Communications Authority of Kenya (CAK) boss Ezra Chiloba, who alleges that live transmission of last week's mass protests - and which could be replayed next week - threatened a breach of the peace and could potentially cause fear and despondency.

The reason is simple: given our restive past and watershed moments like the 2007/8 pogrom, in which gangs watching riots on television responded with "spontaneous" attacks of their own, pillaging villages and raping women and children in the Rift Valley, we must be careful about violence on our screens.