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Kenya: Cabinet Secretary Kuria Ignores Court Order, Insults Media Again
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Kenya: High Court Bars Trade Cabinet Secretary Kuria From Insulting Media
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Kenya: Moses Kuria's Freedom of Speech is Protected as is Press Freedom - President Ruto
Capital FM, 22 June 2023
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Kenya: Govt Minister Moses Kuria Insults, Threatens Nation Media Group
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Kenya: Azimio Senators Stage Walkout in Protest of CS Kuria's Appearance
Capital FM, 22 June 2023
Azimio La Umoja One Kenya Senators Thursday stormed out of the morning sitting in protest of Trade Cabinet Moses Kuria plunging the house into a temporary quorum hitch. Read more »
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Kenya: Sifuna Brings Censure Motion Against CS Kuria to Senate
Capital FM, 21 June 2023
Trade Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria risks censure over his crude attacks against the media. Read more »
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Kenya: Trade Cabinet Secretary Kuria is a National Shame - Media Sector Players
Capital FM, 19 June 2023
Media sector associations have condemned Trade Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria's onslaught against the National Media Group as disgraceful. Read more »
Kenya's Trade Cabinet Secretary Takes Aim at Media Again
Trade and Industrialisation Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria has yet again insulted the media.
This after the High Court had issued an injunction earlier in the week, forbidding Trade Cabinet Secretary Moses Kuria from using disrespectful or slanderous phrases toward any media outlet.
In the ruling, the Milimani High Court Justice Lawrence Mugambi issued the order following an application filed by Charles Mugane, who is a human rights defender and also an advocate of the High Court. In the petition, Mugane said that the insulting words used by Kuria against the media were "intended to intimidate and/or threaten media practitioners from exposing dubious transactions by the government with a promise of proprietary consequences which is a breach of the Freedom of the media guaranteed by the Constitution."
In separate statements issued on June 19, the Media Owners Association (MOA), Media Council of Kenya (MCK), Kenya Editors' Guild (KEG) and Kenya Union of Journalists (KUJ) termed the minister's remarks as a threat to free press.
Kuria appears to be reacting to an exposé published by the Nation Media Group detailing an alleged oil scandal under, according to a Committee to Protect Journalists statement.
President William Ruto has weighed in on the ongoing debate over Kuria's remarks, while acknowledging the need to safeguard media freedoms, Ruto highlighted the equal significance of allowing individuals to express their grievances, as long as they do not undermine the country.
