Nairobi — The Kenya Editors Guild, Kenya Union of Journalists and Kenya Correspondents Association (KCA) have taken Information and Communication Secretary Fred Matiang'i to court for gazetting vacancies in the Media Council of Kenya and for moving to constitute the Communications and Multimedia Appeals Tribunal.
The three media organisations through their lawyer James Orengo contend that any appointments made from the advertised vacancies would be illegal as the Media Council Act and Kenya Information and Communications Amendment Act of 2013, on which they are based, contravene the Constitution.
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