The Nation Centre in Nairobi.[Photo/Planes]
NTV's journalists Linus Kaikai, Larry Madowo and Ken Mijungu escaped a police dragnet on Wednesday evening spend the night at Nation Centre for fear of being arrested by police.
This is part of the ongoing government crackdown after the controversial Tuesday swearing in of NASA leader Raila Odinga as the People's President.
Reports indicate that officers in civilian clothes had camped outside the Nation Centre in pursuit of the trio.
This is after Interior CS Fred Matiang’i said the government had commenced investigations on the swearing-in and a number of media personalities were involved.
Matiang’i said the probe would extend to NASA principals, organizers and facilitators of the event as well as media houses.
“The government was and is aware of the role of some elements in the media who participated in the furtherance of this illegal act, their complicity would have led to the death of thousands of innocent Kenyans,” Matiang’i said.
“Some media houses chose to disregard this advice, their own code of ethics, self-regulation and the moral responsibility of every Kenyan to safeguard the security of their fellow citizens,” he added.
Matiang’i said the three major broadcasting houses that were switched off by the Communications Authority on Tuesday, January 30 will remain shut until investigations into what he termed as “serious breach of security” are complete.
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