Raila Odinga. he has hit out at the government for switching off three media stations. [Photo/Zipo.co.ke]
NASA leader Raila Odinga has labelled the switching off of media houses as a ‘disgrace’ to the rights that Kenya has fought for.
Odinga, speaking for the first time since his swearing in said the move to switch off the three media houses was taking the country back to colonial days.
“They say those the gods want to kill, they first make them mad. And you can see Jubilee is mad. How else do you explain what has happened to the media?” Mr Odinga asked at Okoa Kenya offices.
“That a cabinet secretary can say that the media is being punished, investigations are being done and at that time they will stay off the air. As if they own the media! Who has given Dr Matiang’i those powers?”
“It is either we are living under this Constitution or we are not. We can go our different ways.
There is no need for a government that is violating the law,” Mr Odinga said.This happened before the court intervened and ordered for the opening of the closed media houses.