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This murder mystery sold newspapers by truckloads

Residents of Kisumu gather at Got Alila where charred remains of Robert Ouko were found [Photo: File]

There are Kenyan stories that have sold newspapers, although we won’t say like hot cakes. When the Daily Nation covered the murder of populist politician JM Kariuki with a story that he was in Zambia, sales and confusion went through the roof.

The body of JM, the only legislator to ever pass a private member’s Bill in 1968, was all along at the City Mortuary when Daily Nation Editor-in Chief George Githii was penning a misleading headline that is now a classic case study of media ethics gone awry at the School of Journalism.

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