A Moment Of Truth For Kenya And Africa by Peter E Adotey Addo .

The violence that rocked the world Reached horrific levels resulting everywhere With loss of children, women, and men for days Burned in a church as they were seeking sanctuary And sanctuary was denied In flames by mobs infuriated by votes. The innocent victims faced their rage Seeking help from locked doors and homes ending As charred bodies and trash in the once silent streets No water from kinfolks and no food from neighbors With nothing gained to be sure. Only we can save ourselves from this rage

Dedicated to those who lost their lives in the post Election Riots, Jan .2008

If dismantling all the media houses will save our contry from the events of last january never occuring again just do it. If it will help our children from seing all the filth in our tv screens nowadays just do it

What a morbid OPINION?

What happened to parental control? Or, did the children buy the the television sets?

It is the responsibility of parents to determine what their children watch on television. Or, do you disagree?

We have seen parental control how it works wonders in the west.

Your sentence is meaningless. Please rewrite it.

Cheers from the Language Crew.

Check out this headline from the sun (SEAN Mercer, 18, has been found guilty of killing innocent schoolboy Rhys Jones) This is the link

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2026708.ece?#EMC-Bltn Sir this is what you are calling parental control i suppose. We dont want our kids to be like yours.

Your post plainly circumvents my position. Moreover, it is completely unresponsive to the averments in my post.

Thus, I stand by my original thesis.

I sympathize with the media on their concern on the Kenya Communication Amendment, Bill 2008 (not Media Bill) and agree with those calling for a rethink of the Kenya Communication Act,1998. However, is the media not being a little bit melodramatic and outright hypocritical? The media has the responsibility of analyzing issues for the wananchi-not to incite animosity between them and their elected leaders for media’s selfish reasons. The “holier than thou” Kenyan media have very short memory! They are engaging in chicanery. The Ministry of information in the print media today has appropriately called the media bluff! kenyan forget that some media houses are mentioned in the Waki, Kreligler and in KNCHR reports as having been active and party to inciting post election violence resulting to the deaths of more than 1500 kenyans. The media solicited, and happily accepted, thirty pieces of silver- to betray their country and send it up in frames. These thirty pieces of silver came from the very politicians they are now crucifying. No wonder the MPS feel betrayed. They paid the media to sing praise songs for them and to incite communities against each other in the name of democracy. The media went to bed with murderous! Then some of these media turned around to shed crocodile tears when the fire they helped light devoured the entire country and ironically, threatened to reach their Media Hse studios when some of their employs were caught in the mayhem . How many of these so called wananchi saviours have been seen on the streets agitating for the resettlement of IDPS , for the post election murderous to be prosecuted? Kenyans, don’t be fooled! These so called activists are on the streets not to protect Kenyans against bad laws but to protect their own jobs. They are no different from the ECK employs who are on hunger strike to protect their jobs despite their role in messing up 2007 Elections, (whether they were small clerks or big clerks). Where on earth, say, do you have absolute freedom? Freedom comes with responsibility, which is generally lacking in the Kenyan media today. A country must have values with which to guide its youth, otherwise we will soon be a lost society if we adopt the slogan 'anything goes' as being advocated by our Kenyan media and other activists with own agendas. Why is our media bent on aping rotten foreigners values to destroy family values?

Native you hit the nail on the end. Kenyans do not fail to amaze me. The media is ranting about the media bill which became law in 1998. The bill waiting the accent of the president is Kenya communications amendment bill 2008. It predecesor lapsed during the last parliament which had a clause about cross media ownership. That clause was deleted in the current bill. How people who should be interprating issues properly are missing the point i cant understand. The media should be saying what they think offends them in the current bill then ask parliament to ammend section 88 of the media bill. Inciting public againist the government will not do. We do not need any kind of dictatorship from any quarter. The minister of information said last night he was denied the opportunity to give his side of the story by Nation media group on thursday. The real problem is with Fm stations. Most of their programs are based on sex, obscene language and slander. When this bill is accented they fear that they will loose their audience hence less profits. This bill is not regulating the print media. Responsible journalism demands that you should cover both sides of the debate but kenya media is always biased towards their interests. Since thursday all media outlets have blacked any support of the communications act bill. They have pushed kenyans into their wars. Kenyans are worried about The cost of basic commondities and refusal of MPS to pay taxes.