One Media House, Three Presenters, and One Political Party That Will Drive Kenya to the Pit

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.