The Biggest Media House In East and Central Africa Blunders and Later Tables An Apology

Plagiarism is a mal-practice that is highly discouraged in the world and can call for serious legal actions against the offender.

This is why the Daily Nation, Nation Media’s newspaper and which is the most circulated newspaper in the region, has moved quickly to table a detailed apology after using a plagiarised photo which it claimed was taken in some village in the Rift Valley.

In the photo two lambs are captured suckling from a cow, enjoying the rarest of the meals.

This caused massive outrage from the public that triggered the Daily Nation to apologise for the same.

Here is the apology:

“The Daily Nation issue of Thursday, October 23, 2014, published a picture — on Page 1 in the final edition and in the inside pages in earlier editions — of two lambs suckling a cow.

The picture was purportedly taken the previous day at a farm in Chepkeche village of Uasin Gishu County.

We have since learnt that the picture, taken in New Zealand, was ‘lifted’ from the Internet and submitted to the Daily Nation. Nation Media Group enforces a strict zero-tolerance policy to plagiarism, and therefore appropriate administrative action has been taken against those involved.

We take this early opportunity to apologise to the actual owner of the photo, whom we commend for capturing a most unusual, appealing and heartwarming image. We are sorry for having misled our readers and assure them of improved vigilance to avoid recurrence of such errors.”

This is not the first time the Daily Nation is making such blunders. In 2013, sensitive pictures of the Westgate Mall victims were published in the front page of the nation, leading to Kenyans raging with anger.