National Assembly speaker Moses Wetangula has pledged to speak to President William Ruto to help find interventions to save the standard group on the verge of collapse.
Speaking during an Editors Guild meeting in Mombasa, Wetangula further rooted for media freedom, which he says is enshrined in the constitution.
This comes a few weeks after the Kenya Union of Journalists (KUJ) threatened to mobilize media practitioners to hold demonstrations outside Standard Group Limited offices along Mombasa Road and its other offices countrywide in 14 days after it failed to remit its employees six months' salary.
The Union revealed that Standard Media Droup’s photographers and correspondents have gone ten months without compensation for their daily duties.
KUJ Secretary General Erick Oduor has ordered the Standard Group to formulate a plan to The Body decried that it has tried everything, including negotiations to address the salary crisis coming as the media house itself faces a severe cash crunch, adding that it has received complaints from colleagues on the verge of going to extremities.
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"We have decided to call this press conference because we have tried other means, mainly negotiations with management, to find solutions to the non-payment of salaries to staff, but regrettably, only unfulfilled promises were made. We are saying Enough is Enough!”
"We are giving the company 14 days to come up with a payment plan with a view to settling arrears, or else we will mobilize media workers in a solidarity strike to picket at the company’s offices countrywide," the SG stated.
