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Media warned over Shabaab coverage


Thursday, May 29, 2014
BY ALLOYS MUSYOKA

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NATIONAL Taskforce on Community Policing chairman Joseph Kaguthi has urged Kenyan media owners to be patriotic. He said highlighting stories on al Shabaab attacks is not fair to Kenyans and the country. Kaguthi said media houses should avoid negative publicity for Kenya.

He said such publicity serves the interest on “our enermies”. Kaguthi said every Kenyan knows our soldiers are fighting terrorists in Somalia and the war must be supported by the media. He was speaking at a public baraza in Tiwi market on Tuesday. Kaguthi toured Kwale and Kilifi counties.

He was responding to media reports on two KDF soldiers killed in Lamu by al Shabaab militants. “If your country is at war and you are not supporting it that means you are against it so please let us be patriotic and support our nation,” Kaguthi said.