I love media freedom, and I appreciate what our media houses
and stakeholders are doing to enlarge our freedom of expression. It is in this
spirit of expression that I thought I should share my two cents on the current
situation in Kenya.
I celebrated when KTN News was launched, but I can’t say the
same for my beautiful wife. Since then, it’s like my TV was permanently set to
this channel.
However, watching this channel for that long has led me to
believe its main aim is to ensure Kenya falls into violence after the next
election. It’s hell bent on pushing any opposition agenda no matter the
consequence. You just need to watch three presenters on popular shows and you’ll
come up with the same decision. So in my opinion, the one media house that
needs to be checked for its role in any disruption in peace in Kenya is KTN
News.
In this media house, almost all presenters have a very
biased view and almost ready to push any opposition, Al Shabaab, or any
sentiments against the Government. However, I’ll pick on three that I believe
are enthusiastic about it.
I Believe News Sources program on KTN News presented by
James Smart and Dennis Onsarigo are geared towards creating a narrative that is
misleading and misinforming the public. As we all know, there are facts and
there is reporting of those facts. Those are two different things that should
be differentiated. I believe these two guys are distorting the facts in their
reporting so as to achieve a certain end. I am currently doing a Content
Analysis of this program to establish their main agenda.
There are two ladies I usually group together, Yvonne Okwala
and Linda Ogutu. I love these two presenters, they are authentic, passionate,
and sincere. In fact, I was almost carried away with their sincerity to think
they are truthful and factual. I thought they were representing facts
truthfully.
But I have come to understand that one can be sincerely
wrong. One can sincerely misrepresent facts. I believe what they do is as a
result of the company policy and they represent that so sincerely –no wonder
they have the job. These too, will take the country to the pit if they are not
challenged and checked.
I don’t want to bore anyone with a long list of things they
have done, but a content analysis report is coming up soon that will elaborate
everything. In the meantime, I invite all to watch this channel and especially
those three presenters carefully and make their own judgement.
The one political party is ODM and in extension the CORD. It’s
in open secret that for CORD to win or to be in power there has to be violence.
They can’t will according to the rules set. Their only option is to set rules
that favor them. That’s why you’ll hear of proposals such as disbanding IEBC by
storming their offices, simply because by going through the process, the
commissioners will be found innocent according to the law.
CORD wants to the power so bad yet they have failed to take
responsibility. They will incite people to violence and then blame it on
police. Anyway, that’s not why I am writing this.
Going back to my point, I think CORD will take this country
to the pit. They have already started calling for people to take up arms. It is
clear, through their favorite channel (KTN and KTN News) that they are
threatening anyone who does not agree with them with the promise of war during
and after the 2017 elections. I’ll leave it at that, just watch KTN News and
you’ll understand more.
So, what now. I am appealing to ICC investigators, NGOs,
Police, and other investigating departments to start keeping data of all the
sentiments of war being uttered by those leading and supporting this
party/coalition. At least after they have committed their heinous crimes of
painting Kenya red with Kenyan’s blood, those who will be left will have some
evidence of how the war was planned and executed.
