The Kenya Editors’ Guild has expressed its dissatisfaction with the continuing impasse over the attempted removal of a Media Council of Kenya Board Member. MCK president Churchill Otieno said in a statement on Sunday that any action that negatively impacts the integrity and independence of the media council is a threat to media freedom. This comes following the move taken by MCK CEO David Omwoyo to remove Tabitha Mutemi from MCK Board. “This was the basis on which the CEO subsequently wrote informing the chairman that the Secretariat no longer ‘recognised’ Ms. Mutemi as a member of the Council. He said that the laid down mechanism for appointment and removal of MCK Council members underpins independence of the MCK, and by extension independence of the Media.

Source: The Star February 28, 2021 12:22 UTC