Kenya TV networks gagged sooner than Odinga ‘inauguration’

Heaps of of supporters of Kenyan opposition leader contain gathered in Nairobi sooner than a ceremony the set Raila Odinga deliberate to sing himself in as president, three months after he boycotted presidential election re-bustle.

Security in the Kenyan capital became tightened sooner than the self-declared « inauguration » with authorities shutting down independent TV stations.

Citizen, NTV and KTN TV stations acknowledged on Tuesday that authorities took the independent broadcasters off air over plans to duvet the ceremony at Nairobi’s Uhuru Park. The channels’ Live YouTube streams weren’t affected.

On Monday, Linus Kaikai, chairman of the Kenya Editors Guild, acknowledged senior editors had been summoned by the authorities and warned no longer to duvet the match or possibility being shut down.

Odinga, Seventy two, refused to eradicate fragment in the election re-bustle claiming the govt. deliberate to rig the vote.

President Uhuru Kenyatta won a 2d and final 5-twelve months term in office and became sworn in as president in November.

The East African nation’s Supreme Courtroom annulled August’s presidential election result announcing the electoral commision committed « irregularities and illegalities » all over vote, harming the integrity of the election.

Kenyatta, the son of the nation’s founding father, had furthermore won August’s vote.