Nation Center on Kimathi Street. [Photo: Capital FM]
The Opposition coalition NASA has threatened to boycott the Nation newspaper over “misinformation” on the operations of the Raila Odinga led alliance.
In its protest letter, NASA Director of Communication Dennis Onyango noted that headlines that have been appearing on the paper over the month of January were defective and merely sought to puncture the image of the Opposition.
“For some time now, the Newspaper Division of the Nation Media Group has engaged in what is clearly a mission of misinformation about the activities and intentions of the National Super Alliance. The aim appears to be to divide the Coalition and demoralize supporters,” the letter addressed NMG’s Editor-in Chief Tom Mshindi read in part.
NASA pointed out some of the headlines that they took issue with where prominently, the Opposition was portrayed to be in disarray.
One of the elements featured in the newspaper is the alleged disagreement between NASA principals over the swearing in process.
NASA now says Nation Media Group is in bed with its challengers and they were out to sabotage their activities by wrongfully covering them in their platforms.
The coalition said that the press release was a last warning to the media house further pledging to issue a boycott warrant if the trend continues.
“By this letter, we are putting the Nation Media Group on notice that if this trend does not stop immediately, NASA will have no option but to call on its supporters to take the company as an impediment to the realization of electoral justice, police reforms, independence of the judiciary and strengthening of devolution, among other issues that NASA holds dear,” the statement added. “NASA will then have no option but to call on supporters to boycott the company and all its products.”
NASA in November 2017 issued an economic boycott notice of products and services from firms that were favouring the ruling Jubilee government. NASA advised its supports to cease using products and services from a list of companies as a sign of displeasure in firms that sympathized with a regime that was perpetrating electoral injustice.