Distinguished law scholar Makau Mutua will resume his column at NMG's Sunday Nation after over four years of absence, he has revealed.
Prof Mutua, who has declared intentions to run for Presidency, stopped writing for the publication without disclosing further details in 2014.
After his departure, he was given another column with the rival Standard Media Group which he has been running until recently. It is now clear if he will cut links with SMG.
On his Twitter account on Tuesday, the SUNNY University lecturer said his column will resume from this Sunday, adding that he's convinced that editorial standards of the publication are above board.
"I am pleased to return to @dailynation this Sunday as a columnist. I do so confident that with an NMG editorial leadership committed to a free and independent press we will keep the embers of democracy burning. Let's provoke, educate, inform, and entertain @mutuma_mathiu," he wrote.
Last year in March, NMG suffered a huge loss after over eight columnists pulled out over editorial concerns. They accused the media group of lacking editorial independence.
“We refuse to continue to clothe the loss of editorial independence and freedom at the NMG with respectability,” the statement read.
“Thankfully, public opinion is no longer in the sole grip of those who buy ink by the barrel. We are encouraged by the emergence of more egalitarian models for accessing and sharing information and will not be powerless witnesses to the silencing even of one voice, however disagreeable those in power find it.”
And in response, Nation Media Group accepted their departure but argued that it had individual contracts with each of the columnists and had never violated them