Activist Bonface Mwangi Urges Kenyans To Stand With Jicho Pevu’s Mohamed Ali And Other Journalists

Kenyan journalists are an endangered species in Kenya, especially the investigative ones, after a bill was proposed to wag them and jail anyone who ‘undermines the security intelligence’ in the country.

The bill has since attracted rebuke from all quarters, with many arguing that the government is trying to be dictatorial.

This has forced activist Bonface Mwangi to call all Kenyans to stand for and with the likes of Mohammed Ali, his counterpart John Allan namu and other investigative journalists as the government seeks to silence them.

Mwangi says that journalists who go beyond press releases to reveal to Kenyans what is hidden should be protected and encouraged to do more.

Here is what he tweeted: