The Jubilee government has frozen all advertisements to the country’s four main national newspapers in a move likely to put it in a collision course with the media industry.
A special Cabinet meeting early this month resolved to have the State start its own publication referred to as MY.GOV, where all adverts will be published. All State agencies too have been asked to direct adverts to the publication.
Head of Civil Service and President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Chief of Staff Joseph Kinyua has since communicated the directive to all ministries. The move will deprive newspapers millions of shillings in revenue, and could lead to massive job losses.
In a circular dated February 8, 2017 from Mr Kinyua to all ministries and copied to Attorney General Githu Muigai, all directors of administration (MDAs) have been warned that failure to comply will lead to them being surcharged.
The circular from Kinyua states that in line with the Jubilee government’s desire to cut cost in the provision of services, there will be no need for MDAs to use resources allocated to them to advertise their services and convey requests for service from the market.
If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press (John McCain, 2017)
Hii tuliona b4 Leonardo da Vinci a paint Mona Lisa.
https://www.kenyatalk.com/index.php?threads/jubilee-government-and-local-media.41821/
How will they distribute these papers?
Time for government propaganda it’s election year.
As an insert in the mainstream papers at a fee … People daily has so far agreed to do it, others have refused.
Ok
Says the guy who has been defending Donald Drumpf here more tenaciously than an Appalachian in-bred redneck…
I think the government withdrawing from the media advertisement will mean it will have less leverage over the media houses since it is no longer one of the media’s biggest client all of a sudden. They will be “freer” or maybe they will highly highly biased against the government since they got nothing to lose
hii thread haijafikisha threshold kama RAO hajatajwa.
I don’t defend Trump, I debunk liberal hypocrisy.
They have a fight on their hands, @FieldMarshal CouchP, what % of ad. & announcement revenue that newspapers earn come from government?
True but isn’t this anchored in law? The government is required by law to advertise notices, tenders and vacancies in two leading newspapers or something like that. It is part of the PFM act if I am not wrong
Hi elin, can i paint your kitty white?
they have been highly biased…
PPAD Act.
More and more you are beginning to sound like a Trump supporter.
"Fake News! The Liberal media is biased against Trump. "
A good journalist should be truthful not impartial.
Hi tukiona Kinta Kunte alikuwa hajakuwa captured by slave traders in the Gambia.
About 35%.
The guys are ferked.