East Africa: Candidate TV Debate in East Africa, Way to Go

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KENYA has had a chequered political history but no one can accuse the East Africa nation of not dying while trying. In 2010 while working as General Manager of WBS TV in Uganda, I broached the idea of a televised debate on all TV stations by the 2010 Uganda General election Presidential candidates.

Naturally, President Yoweri Museveni's handler's (M7 was facing stiff opposition from his erstwhile ally turned critique, Col. Kiiza Besigye) , oscillated between yes and may be and finally, came up with an ingenious method to derail the project when they elected to have Yoweri appear exclusively on a Kenyan TV Station, K24 ad thus derail the whole cause by sending his Defense Minister to represent him in our debate.

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